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so i started using chat gpt about 2 months ago. i was skeptical at first cuz i didn't know what to expect and apart from reading about it on twitter , i wasn't really sure what it was about.

BUT it's been 2 months and i've got to tell you that chat gpt is not coming to take your job Lol. it is here to assist in becoming an insanely productive developer. if you're looking at it from the angle that's it's coming to take your job, you're gonna be missing out on a whole lot.

Most times, we 'fight' because it provides inaccurate informations every now and then but that is where your own experience/discernment kicks in. you tell it that you think this is wrong and it's gonna provide you something very close to what you're looking for.

As it is now, my productivity has skyrocketed. i can take on tasks that i don't really know too much about cuz once i sit with it for an hour or so, i'm definitely going to achieve what i set out to achieve.

I think the relationship is symbiotic because we both gain from the interactions; it gets better as an AI model and i also get better as a developer.

truthCoder:
You are using your alt.

LOL

Ahh you're confusing me for someone else obviously .

truthCoder:
Reactjs?

How many monikers do you have?

LOL

Wait please. i hope it's not what i'm thinking. what do you mean how many moniker do i have?

GloriousGbola:
This is the worst advice you can give anyone

Technical competence gets you the job, emotional intelligence gets you ahead. This applies EVERYWHERE. Because you will always reach a point where it becomes about managing people to get results. If you cannot manage your boss, you will not be able to manage a team of subordinates.

Otherwise you will wind up bitter as you see people who are not particularly smart or intelligent get ahead.

Thank you. You cannot get to the top based off of technical competence alone. I don't know what kind of organisations people on this forum work for or how large and diverse their team is. I told the other guy in the thread that, after you've established a certain level of competence, you soft skills will matter more. It's just the way the world worlds.. unless you want to keep jumping from one company to another all your professional life.

truthCoder:
Always follow the context.

The OP surmised that people should please their managers to get favors, which could be positive recommendations.

My response is to counter that.

This is not about people management and your points are way off from the context.

Many companies have failed because they had a culture of cult worship.

If you are good at your job, you would be valued. If you are not valued where you are, simply go to where your skills would be valued.

As a manager, I appreciate subordinates who can deliver on their JDs and KPIs more than those that are always telling me my new sneakers are the best Nike ever made.

There is a limit to where foot licking can take you.

"The OP surmised that people should please their managers to get favors, which could be positive recommendations. "

Lol that's what you understood from what i wrote? You're a funny person and one of the reasons why i chose not to indulge you the other day is that i saw you definitely missed the point and you're still missing the point.

robinhood171200:
boss i'm a developer and i'd like to ask you a couple of questions, how can i contact you or is there a way to send you a message directly?

Hey bro please send a DM to @npmrundev_ on twitter.

truthCoder:
Become better at the job.

Dont give a hoot about mid management liking you if you deliver on your KPIs.

If you are really good and they try to hogwash you with this rubbish bootlicking, take your skills to another place.

I have seen people who follow this your mantra and they stink professionally.

Erm Okayy

qtguru:
How do you impress the manager? let me guess by working hard ?

Err yes to some extent. after a certain competence level, soft skills becomes more important than hard skills.

So there's something i've been meaning to share with you guys pertaining to getting a raise and or promotion at work.

Most times in a workplace you see raises and promotions get handed to people that other employees might feel they're underserving of it. Sadly it almost doesn't matter how much of a hardworker you are or if you always work longer hours than everybody if you're not strategically positioning yourself.

A lot of times, it boil downs to if you have someone(mostly your manager) speaking on your behalf to the people that makes the decision concerning who gets either a raise or promotion and who doesn't. If your manager doesn't feel compelled enough to fight for you in your absence where it matters, you have a problem.

You need to focus only on impressing, in this context, your manager. Your manager HAS TO LIKE YOU. I cannot emphasize enough the advantages of this. conversely, i also cannot imagine the disadvantages that comes with your manager not liking you.

You just need to how find to become a likeable person and get the important people in your organization on your side.

sqlPAIN:
You're not a software developer.. You're just another fellow looking for daily bread.
See ur mouth like computational thinking, if I drop one problem for you to use computational thinking and solve now, Na that time you go dey tell me sey you're still learning.

This guy is a menance.

tensazangetsu20:
Check your blood pressure when next you are done.

Listen to what this my bro just said! Please check your blood pressure as soon as you can or when next it happens.

belovez:
Good evening ReactJs,

I will like to ask, what are the hard things a Nodejs Developer needs to learn apart from Express, Mongodb, and sql for database in order to stand out and any course recommendation or pointer that could be of help.

Thanks

Hi bro, please have a look at this https://roadmap.sh/backend, https://roadmap.sh/nodejs. For courses, please checkout Stephen Grider on udemy

People are still getting hired. if you’re just starting out, I’ll implore to stay away from social media for at least 1 year and really work on improving your skills. Learn the hard things.

Learn the nitty gritty of whatever aspect of tech you want to go into, this is what will separate you from people who get their advice from developers on twitter who probably spend more time on twitter than they do on their IDE, if they have one.


Again, don’t pay attention to the noise in media right now. People are still getting hired. You just need to be good enough.

The only caveat is that you probably cannot become good enough in 3,6 or even 9 months. You need at least 1 year of consistent practice, training and working on the right things. Day in Day out!

I’ll attach a screenshot of my conversation with a buddy of mine that got hired couple of days ago.

People are still getting hired. You just need to be good enough.

SavageBoy:
Funny

Special recognition to tensa and Greatigboman

I personally adore the kind of low key life ReactJs have here. That guy is a legend, too busy to see him dragging anyone or being dragged here.

Lol boss even offline naso i dey o. Anything weh pass to play game, work and chill for cubana once in a while you no fit see me there.

Hello guys. My company(Uk based company) intends to fly us out the UK sometime this year for a company retreat.

So they need to know what it's going to take to get me a visit visa from Nigeria to spend a couple of days(7-10) in the UK. i've been working with them for almost a year and half.

Please i'd appreciate any info/guidelines on how to go about this and what needs to be done both on my part and theirs. Thank you!

airsaylongcome:
Is this FTE or IC role? No matter how disappointed you are, always keep it classy and professional. You fit cuss dem shege for your house. But never on an email

IC. yeah i figure it wasn't worth it. its one of those things.

So guys on my quest for a 2nd remote job i wanted to share my experience interviewing for sort of a fintech company in the US called WalletHub and how you should manage your expectations until you've signed an employment document(even those get rescinded LOL!)

I'm not a person that gets disappointed easily because believe me life has taught me not to celebrate until i'm very sure i've gotten that thing but after passing i think about 5-6 rounds of interview and SPOKEN WITH THE CEO, i thought i've finally hit the jackpot o.

This whole process took OVER 1 MONTH.

First round was normal coding test which i passed, followed by a behavioural interview, followed by a technical interview, follow by about 3 or 4 finance/credit card/loans mathematical tests. omo i passed everything.

They asked for my salary, i said $60k p/a for a senior role without mincing words. HR said no wahala. HR was even telling me the brand of headphones to get for meetings and what not only for me to receive the shock of my life.

I was very confused and even thought of replying to cuss them out or something but i just overlooked.

Has anyone experienced this same thing?

tensazangetsu20:
If not for anything, do it for your children. Having your kids with a Nigerian only passport is a very serious handicap. I rather not have children than have Nigerian only kids. I despise my parents for making me a Nigerian but theres nothing I can do about it than make sure it doesnt happen to any of my own kids.

Lol bruv you’ve made a good point. That’s another strong reason to want to leave. I just think I’ve gotten very comfortable with juxtaposing things i can currently get in Nigeria and things i can get abroad.

Most of the stuff can make aboard appealing are things that i probably already have.

nice thread! for me, i'm so laid back with this relocation thing. The only thing that makes me fantasise about relocating is the internet. Our internet is big mess but now that this elon musk's starlink coming to nigeria maybe my internet problem is about to be solved.

Bro you need to reorient yourself with regards to how focused you are about the monetary benefits of a career path you've not even started. One of the things that drives people to get into "tech" is money no doubt but you're probably not going to stick around to make that money if that money is your only motivation because it might relatively take a while before you start seeing that money.

Another thing is nobody can really decide for you what aspect of tech to focus . you're going to have to do your own intensive research so as to know beforehand what you're actually getting yourself into.

Whatever aspect you later pick, you can now start finding people in that domain for more in-depth suggestions about how you should go about it. That way, you make it easier for everyone involved.


On a side note, guys, quite a number of people send me requests to chat privately. I'm sorry I can't respond for personal reasons.

batistutajulio:
Please you mind telling me where you find remote jobs where the company hire candidate from all over the world. I have applied 100s of times and most of the time, rejection is that I am not a citizen so I can't be offered the role. You give me sources I can try.

LinkedIn sir.

Quite insightful post tensazangetsu20. I had an interview with a startup in Oslo,Norway last week Friday. The interview was in 3 stages. Live coding(Fibonnaci Sequence) , Design Patterns and take home. Made it to the take home aspect which apparently was the easiest aspect of the interview but if I get offered the job, I'm not gonna take it cuz the pay range is still in the range of what I'm earning and its a startup. I don't want to work at a startup.

I'm already in the over a million Naira monthly bracket but my actual goal is to get to at least 10million Naira monthly before the end of next year. But I have actually seen backend roles that wants to pay me this within my desired range. I came very close with a firm in Helsinki, and another in the UAE. Do you know what keeps messing me up? AWS certificates. I swear. it's almost like I can't run away from it anymore which is why I'm dedicated the next couple of months for getting these certs.

It's pointing to line 21.
const salt = await bcrypt.genSalt(10);
const hashedPasssword = await bcrypt.hash(password, salt);

https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcryptjs Please checkout their docs

InfinityFabric:
Actual Devs are like robot, we hardly sleep. Even when we are overheating we only down-clock our processors to cool down. Never shutdown/hibernate/sleep

Lol no sleep o. body go tell you

Avast:
Boss please can you recommend a react course for me.

Thanks and how can I reach you, thou have sent dm

Hey bro sorry I don't have access to this email at this point. but checkout this guy https://www.udemy.com/course/react-redux/. Though I'm not much of a React person anymore but this guy is such a great teacher and he explains rather complex things with ease.

Hannania:
woooohh!! That's a damn crazy duration. Do you mind sharing with us the system name and spec? Thinking of changing mine. It last 6hrs on 237 SSD, 8GB ram.

M1 MacBook Pro

onyeadurunujoel:
Mind sharing the name and specs?

MacBook Pro M1

Heavy usage after a full-charge 9-12 hours. Light usage after a full charge 2-5days.

great stuff

https://mono.co/
https://www.lazerpay.finance/
https://www.trybrass.com/
https://fluidcoins.com/
https://www.getequity.io/
https://mvm./
https://www.busha.co/

Boys are trying o. beyond trying cef but these guys are not cheap. quality work costs money and sadly a lot of Nigerians don't wanna pay for a top tier product.

someone in my network reached out to me that he wants something exactly like https://dappradar.com/. Told him how much it's gonna cost if he wants it to look like that. i'm not a frontend person but i've got a great taste and know when a product doesn't look and feel sleek. Sadly he didn't see the need to want to pay good money for a top product.

so we've got the talent. can you afford them?

Udemy works perfectly well with nigerian mastercards(gtbank, zenith, access). but you've got to have excess of the amount the course costs. if a course is being sold for $10 make sure you've got at least $15-$17 on that card. it should work

tensazangetsu20:
It doesn't but companies are foolish so we all should play to their foolishness. If we complain from today till next year the standard will never ever change. More and more companies sef are adopting DSA interviews sef.

Lol well it is what it is.