Career pivot · Clief Notes

Career pivot

Hello all. Glad to be here.

On background, I come from a lifetime of blue-collar and recently decided to expand my horizons and start learning more about tech. I started learning frontend back in December but I'm less excited by UI than I am backend ops. Still plugging through an online frontend course to finish what I started but I'm thinking my next course will be python since that seems to be the best place to start with backend. Open to suggestions if any of you think otherwise.

I am in a few of these AI forward communities but

@Jake Van Clief

's content really spoke to me with the emphasis on file structure and not trying to create a custom agent for every single niche task.

I have been navigating blindly around this approach, lacking clarity on how to move forward so I am looking forward to learning how to systematically apply the proper structure to every project. There is so much information out there and it is definitely overwhelming for newbs.

This past weekend I started working on a global.md for all my app builds that will cover the standard build architecture, refactor checkpoints, best practices, etc. I was spurred to do this by listening to a YC podcast episode with a bunch of software engineers giving tips on how to vibe code without creating absolute garbage. So far, the bits and pieces of these methods I have implemented in projects has yielded solid results and I look forward to optimizing further.

My goal is to build actual tools that solve actual problems and not just wow business owners with overpriced crap they won't use after the initial novelty wears off.

Excited to learn and contribute where I can!

Cheers.

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