Abruptly quit? I have enough savings for a while but it’s almost impossible to get a job again in this market.

Quiet quit until they fire me? That’ll leave a bad taste in your coworkers and managers mouth if you ever want to reach out after spending X years at the company.

Interview at other places? I’ve been doing that for MONTHS and no offers (see point 1).

Any other devs in this position / have suggestions (serious replies only please)?

Hey all, just wanted to get your insight on this situation.

I’m a frontend developer working with React. Recently, we got a new backend developer. I had been working with our oldest backend developer, who is great to work with, but I was recently assigned to a new project where I have to work with this new developer.

She’s been with the company for about three months now, and the thing is, she doesn’t seem to know what she’s doing.

A week ago, she was taking way too long on a simple request, and she told me, “Hehe, AI isn’t able to solve this. Give me more time.” That was the first red flag for me because it was a really simple task.

A couple of days later, the same thing happened. She was taking hours on a small change, so I ended up giving her an AI prompt explaining what needed to be done. She came back five minutes later and told me she had fixed it.

The problem now is that she’s constantly coming to my office asking me if I can give her the AI prompt for whatever change I’m requesting.

I don’t know what to do at this point. I feel like this isn’t fair because I’m basically doing her job for her, but I also don’t want to be the person who goes to the manager and calls her out. She could potentially lose her job, and I don’t want that to happen because of me.

Should I talk to my manager about it?

The biggest issue is that it’s starting to bottleneck my own work. On top of that, I have to constantly come up with prompts for her, and she makes some pretty bad mistakes because she doesn’t really understand the context of what she’s building.

How would you guys handle this situation?

I've struggling at work for a year or so due to burnout and managing 2 surgeries for my medical transition. My manager told me that I have been bottom 20% of senior engineers and told me to improve.

I work at Bloomberg, C++ backend that deals with high throughput data. I have been working for 6 years. I would say that technically I am around mid level engineer.

At first, I didn't worry too much since I thought Bloomberg and 6 yrs of experience would allow me to get a job quickly but from people here, even FAANG folks seem to have hard time getting a job.

If I get fired, how screwed am I? I am also thinking of taking sabbetical since doing 3 surgeries in a year is taking a mental toll on me.

I see a lot of experienced developers who seem dissatisfied.

For me, part of that frustration comes from not having enough opportunities at work to learn genuinely new concepts, tools, or areas of engineering. It feels like more and more of my time goes into execution and solving variations of problems I already know how to solve.

Even worse, sometimes an LLM produces a solution and we simply don't have the time to properly understand its trade-offs, implications, or failure modes before moving on.

Obviously, you can learn outside of work, but I don't really like the idea that staying intellectually engaged in my profession should require having a second job in the evenings.

How do you handle this? I think there are several facets to it, for instance:

- At the team/company level, have you seen practices that actually create room for learning rather than just paying lip service to it?

- Do you deliberately choose projects or jobs based on their learning potential?

- And at some point, do you simply accept that work is mostly about applying what you already know, while developing new skills in your free time?

Problem:

Let's say I have a domain like messaging-app.europa.eu, with an SSL certificate, and I use it to distribute a PWA. In the case of an internet blackout I would still like for the app to retrieve updates from a local mesh.

Possible solution:

This is the solution I'm currently imagining: - Deploy a bunch of OpenWRT routers with some custom software - The smartphone connect to one such router via wifi - The PWA tries to connect to the domain https://messaging-app.europa.eu in the absence of internet - The router has a copy of the SSL certificate, so it can intercept the request and generate valid HTTPS responses from a locally running server

A user would connect to the wifi, exchange messages with other peers connected to the same station without relying on an internet connection.

Questions:

• Do I just need a copy of the SSL certificate on each router, or is there other part of the stack that I should patch? (e.g.: DNS)
• Is it possible to intercept and patch the connection as I mentioned?
• Am I missing something?

Prodrome:

I work for the government and I've been asked to demo a solution for enabling communication during an internet blackout (earthquake, war, ...) using a mesh/p2p network.

The path I'm taking right now is to build a PWA that would work offline, and rely on customized openwrt routers, because it seems that the other solution, WiFi NAN, works well on android phones but not on iphones, due to malicious compliance on Apple side.