Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
by throw83288 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @08:45PM
(#42968374)
Hmm. I maintain a pretty big open-source project, so I guess I'm already kinda that? I honestly love computing moreso than I love coding. I'm not very familiar with business concepts though.
Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
by scarface_74 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @08:51PM
(#42968407)
I really hate to say this. But open source contributions don’t matter either. It’s only what you do for a company. No one has time to look at an open source repository. Every open job these days have thousands of applications. They aren’t going to look at your GitHub repo.
Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
by throw83288 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:01PM
(#42968476)
I see now. You mean real business stuff. At that point I may as well do a startup.
Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
by scarface_74 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:08PM
(#42968519)
So taking the wrong lessons from what I’m saying :).
It’s even harder doing a startup straight out of college with no business skills, no network, and no real world experience.
Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
by throw83288 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:18PM
(#42968570)
I guess I'm just confused now. I can't do technical since that's too commodified, but I can't do business since I'm a youngster with no real world experience.
Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
by scarface_74 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:20PM
(#42968584)
My bad. I’m carrying on two threads within the same post. This was my suggestion to another question
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42818169
Short version is don’t be a “ticket taker”. Move closer to the customer/stakeholder and further away from the IDE. Think in terms of adding business value and focus more on strategy than tactics (pulling well defined stories off the board).
https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html
I didn’t just pull “scope”, “impact” and “ambiguity” out of thin air. The leveling guidelines of all the tech companies boil down to this in one way or the other.
This is Dropbox’s for instance.
https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/
I’ve been moving closer to the “business” for a decade now after spending almost two decades as your bog standard enterprise dev. I haven’t done much active coding except some simple Python scripts in almost 3 years.
My focus is now strategic cloud consulting focusing on application development. I’m not saying necessarily “learn cloud”. Learning how to deal with “the business” and leading implementations that deliver business value is the objective. The “cloud” just happens to be my tool. I’m slowly adding Big Data/ML/“AI” to my tool belt.