Best advice on how to transition from junior dev to a senior dev

this guy is smart

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Agree, have this feeling when I rebuild something I made a year ago. You analyze your code and see where you got better.

exactly building my own redis from scratch

Reinventing the wheel in the service of learning is always a worthwhile endeavor. Sometimes it actually ends well in a production environment as well but, only if you're already a senior developer with serious, serious chops.

Reading almost 1K lines of SQL code made me from Junior to Mid.

It's always amazed me how people don't already do this. Like how do you expect to learn and grow?

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I agree! I built a key value datastore last month in C and it's actually faster than redis. Uses a single-threaded, non-blocking event loop with I/O multiplexing using epoll on linux and kqueue on macOS. Learned a lot about C and systems like Redis.

For a start people should try to avoid python requests in the beginning and rather use urllib when they need to write http clients or APIs.

Thanks Abhinav, this is great advice

great advice absolutely do not do this on the job and don't ever suggest rebuilding non-trivial existing functionality until you're a sr

The best way is just write senior on your resume Instant upgrade

This is what I've been doing. But feel like I'm getting no where

What I cannot create, I do not understand

Wait, a transition?

@grok who is this?

personally this guy has been an inspiration for me

Lead your employer???. Definitely not my employer 😄

Spot on

We have successfully exposed fake engineers like mutahar and that blizzard guy, it will be him soon.

git push origin burn-out — the true career path. Appreciate the legit tips, especially the HTTP ones 🔥

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I recommend going through step-by-step YT tutorials building some mainstream apps to learn about patterns and anti-patterns too

Thanks

I learnt so much from thePrimeAgen

This is the best thing I’ve heard today.

Yes

Golden words

@grok bu adam tam olaraq ne deyir ? Tercume etsen sevinerem

love this guy.

This is what I do, when I work on projects,encounter a problem, I discuss it with ai to come up with a solution in code, which I also understand, not simple copy paste , should I do this or should I do stuff on my own,finding my own solution & architecture,not following practices

whos this guy? he gets it

On point

Solid advice

prime is goated