It's been a while since I've touched JavaScript/TypeScript. I've been programming almost exclusively in Python for the last several years in my role as a data engineer at our company. From what I see, more and more AI tools and libraries are being written in JavaScript. Is it worth refreshing on JS / TS or can you still succeed with just knowing Python.
I don't think it's necessary. If you know Python, then just knowing how functions are defined, how arrays work, and other stuff that you know how to do in Python are transferable. If you are curious about anything you can always look it up or ask around. I think you'll be able to pick it back up in no time if need be.
1) share what you’re building right now AND 2) post a photo of your workspace setup PS. If you’re working on multiple things then please share the one that’s most fun ;)
I asked you about this when you signed up! ALSO please comment below: - WHAT one specifically? (if Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode, etc..) - WHY is it your favorite? Thanks everyone, I'm really looking forward to seeing what people around the world are using
@Alex Galea Opus 4.6 was peak for me personally. It was very consistent. But you may be right. I do like Opus, just lately my experience has been more misses than hits. At the end of the day, I think local LLMs will be the answer but right now to build a good machine that can handle this it’s very expensive.
@Alex Galea yeah. I mean small language models do exist. Think those can be tweaked but the bottleneck as you know is the hardware and how much vram you need to compute. Or you can build a cluster of Mac mini is and then see apples processors where you don’t have to worry about buses and stuff as all of this is built into the chip and thus the latency is even further reduced. I just try to keep my eye on the space and try to experiment as fast as possible when something looks promising.
Do you remember your first computer program? Tell me your story. I'll go first. I started learning Python and Fortran in the summer of 2013, after finishing my undergraduate program. Yup — I didn't write my first real computer program until I was 22 years old. And you want to know a secret? I nearly failed my only CS class of undergrad. The reason I nearly failed was because I didn't apply myself. Instead I treated the class like an annoying distraction from my core Physics studies. I remember that I literally paid a dude to do one of my CS assignments for me. Can you believe that? It wasn't until that summer of 2013 that I started to fall in love with programming. I remember the feeling of getting my code to run, and seeing the terminal outputs race down my screen. I remember learning to use vim and ssh into remote servers. It felt like magic. Like I'd opened a door to a new world. It felt powerful. Since then, times have changed. But there's still plenty of magic in the air. Welcome to my coding club. Let's make some more magic together.
Was in the US Navy. There I learned about Unix. I finished my time in the service and got a job as a Linux admin. That company laid off the entire division due to them not securing a longer term contract and that’s when I pivoted to software development. Went to a coding bootcamp that lasted about 6 months. Got my first job 6 months after that and been on the engineering grind since. First heard about AI back when IBM invented Watson and I was talking to some reps back then about the technology. Been loosely following it until a few years ago when I decided to go all in. And here I am.