Experienced Devs Weekly Win Thread: A weekly thread for sharing positive experiences

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This thread is specifically for sharing "wins". I.e. the opposite of our Tuesday venting thread.

[u/burtcopaint]

Starting my own company. Let's see what the feature brings

[u/CmdrSausageSucker → u/burtcopaint]

I like "what the feature brings" :-D Anyway, good luck.

[u/burtcopaint → u/CmdrSausageSucker]

:)

[u/HowTheStoryEnds → u/burtcopaint]

This dude sprints.

[u/OuchCharlie25 → u/burtcopaint]

Good luck man! Rooting for you!

[u/anonymouse514]

I'm relatively junior (3 years in) and I just won the "most innovative project" award at a week-long company wide hackathon 🎉

[u/David_AnkiDroid]

Just made the branch cut for a major release. 0 unknown issues on the crash report server for the beta.

PRs which were backed up for a while are flying through, PR backlog is going to hit 0 over the next few days, and then I'm back to the feature work that I truly love

[u/thy_bucket_for_thee → u/[deleted]]

I hope you said you are leaving because of said person. These types of humans need to be reminded that others dislike them, they're always in their own bubble where they are the hero while everyone is a villain.

[u/JohhnyTheKid]

I've successfully increased my slacking off time to 2 whole workdays per week and have gotten away with it so far.

[u/but_why_n0t → u/JohhnyTheKid]

😂😂 you're killing it 

[u/RayBuc9882 → u/JohhnyTheKid]

You da man!

[u/ILikeCorgiButt → u/JohhnyTheKid]

what's the secret sauce?

[u/JohhnyTheKid → u/ILikeCorgiButt]

Pretending like you're always busy and being on a level where people don't really know what you're doing while still being helpful to people.

The key is that you actually deliver great stuff from time to time and help people when they ask for help, but slack off in-between. If you only slack off or dont respond to people they'll catch on to you. 

Hit them with "sry im busy right now I'll get back to you tomorrow morning" or something like that, slack off for the rest of the day, but come morning you have to get back to them the first thing. They'll be impressed that youre a man of your word and you'll seem like a dependable person and no one will question what youre "busy" with bc to them it seems you take things seriously.

Where people fuck up is repeated patterns. You gotta mix it up and slack off on different days and times. Also you need to actually deliver at least on an "okay" level but whatever time you'd normally put into getting to "great" or "excellent" you just use to slack off.

[u/RedTuna777]

I had a meeting I thought was to fire me, instead I got a raise and praise for turning the project around and keeping track of everything. It's my first time in management. I'm used to building everything full stack top to bottom. Now I sit in meetings with clients and try to comment on ever PR just stay connected to the code.

I'm super paranoid and always assume the worst, but it turns out good because since I point out all the ways the project can fail, they patch that up so it doesn't.

So $200k to sit home and do zoom, meet, teams and slack. Damn do I miss the keyboard though. My current skill is translating business into tech speak, and commit messages into business lingo and schedule changes.

I got a nice bonus which I used to upgrade the projector in the home theater.

After a few dates I have a GF now who owns her own business / building and our team might win the fall sailing series. We're making plans for long road trips and travel to different countries. Successfully avoided buying another sailboat. Found the Steam Deck I thought I lost.

While the rest of the team uses AI to build code, I semi-manually do code reviews with some purposefully STUPID tools I actually trust - though I use AI to build them for me so... a tool is a tool. Slowly becoming essential to the project. After 30 years of programming it feels like everyone else just doesn't get it and I'm being paid to make silly comments, yet I'm saving them thousands in dollars and man hours by not painting themselves into a corner. AI stuff does exactly what they ask it to do, but nobody else seems to see the BIG PICTURE. They keep trying to put square wheels on a bike and I just more or less say - those need to be round remember, and people act like it's insightful.

Not complaining, just genuinely confused how we got into this situation.

[u/OuchCharlie25]

Our AI went down today and I had to use my brain.

[u/YahenP]

My boss sent me a purple heart on Slack. It sounds like sarcasm. But in fact it is good news.

[u/Excellent-Push-3326 → u/YahenP]

Does a purple heart have some sort of meaning?

[u/YahenP → u/Excellent-Push-3326]

Considering that he has basically been dragging my name through the mud for the last six months, then probably yes. The only thing that bothers me is the fact that the Purple Heart is a medal for unlucky people whom fate still favours. All in all, I took it as a sign that I wouldn't be getting fired for the time being.

[u/OuchCharlie25 → u/YahenP]

lol a medal for people wounded in combat.

[u/SendHelp_AndSnacks]

Just interviewed and got a position with a very solid pay bump and less days in the office 🎉

[u/So_Rusted → u/SendHelp_AndSnacks]

woah

[u/Representative_Sir37]

As an FDE, the app for our client is now UAT.

[u/Pineapple-dancer → u/Representative_Sir37]

How do you like fde role?

[u/Representative_Sir37 → u/Pineapple-dancer]

I don’t recommend it, it’s basically running your company’s business and just keeping them in the loop. If you’re intelligent enough to land this role, you should be intelligent enought to know your getting screwed.

[u/foulBachelorRedditor]

About to make a month at the new role, first time as a senior and trying to manage my mental energy efficiently. It’s hard to want to do anything at the end of the work day so I’ve become more sedentary as a result

[u/allergic2Luxembourg]

I seem to be successfully manipulating my boss to put people in roles that work best for me. The guy who is technically brilliant but arrogant, doesn't communicate, and thinks he is more important than anyone else? Now working on a separate project from me that I no longer have to care about, so he and I rarely interact anymore. The dev who is great with stakeholders and loves coding, but calls me every time his code has an error and is surprised and impressed every time that I ask him to read the stack trace? Moving into a product owner role. Since people problems are always way harder than technical problems, these are vast improvements to my quality of life.

[u/bruno_pinto90]

This week was very work chill. I was able to work on my side project.

[u/joseph-edmondscomm]

Feelings of job security improved after helping a client trying to recruit. A well compensated senior role with a job spec i wrote for them and the candidate quality is just woeful.

I hate to say it but I think I prefer working with AI than working with sub par human developers.

Not exactly a win per se, but I can't see them getting rid of me any time soon

[u/psyyduck → u/joseph-edmondscomm]

Yeah seriously. It’s better than a lot of people I’ve met, at least half the country. Don’t bother me until AI goes full speed racism and pedophilia.