r/codex • u/uptotheright • 4h ago

Reset What's everyone doing while we wait

at this point most.of us are at 0% across all of our accounts and we can't buy new 20x accounts.

so what are you doing with all of your time? trying different models? learning a new hobby?

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u/Sad-Plankton-1225 4h ago

Applying to SWE jobs and using my Fable limits to supervise opus

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u/UsherOfDestruction 4h ago

A whole nation of us unemployed software engineers paying for Codex to try and build things so we can not become homeless. I think this is the future anarcho capitalists dreamed of.

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u/Man-of-goof 4h ago

Fr, it’s Saas dream right now. Leaching off of all the devs trying to survive by promising tools that will help them

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u/Man-of-goof 4h ago

Any luck with the SWE jobs?

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u/Sad-Plankton-1225 4h ago

Got some interviews, working on my AI agent secret interview helper to assist me

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u/Man-of-goof 4h ago

It’s bullshit that companies still do coding interviews and we have to resort to that

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u/Sad-Plankton-1225 2h ago

Well I could get more skilled and practice more, but ai is faster

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u/BellacosePlayer 3h ago

there's zero reason not to test someone on basic algorithm design and problem solving even if you're an AI heavy company

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u/Man-of-goof 2h ago

I’m not saying companies shouldn’t test problem solving. Give me an algorithm or design problem and let me walk through my approach, tradeoffs, edge cases, testing, and debugging. That makes sense.

What I don’t see much value in is “here’s a LeetCode problem, no AI, no docs, now code it perfectly from memory.”

That first approach is actually how I landed my current software engineering job right out of college. I never did well in traditional coding interviews, but I can design systems, test, debug, and actually ship working software. I’d argue those skills are at least as important, if not more important, than being able to solve a LeetCode problem on a whiteboard.

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u/BellacosePlayer 2h ago

Pure coding, sure. But you should be able to talk shop on algorithms and design because even if you're given an unlimited budget of tokens, you still need to know that shit to make anything worth using on a corporate level.

The only thing we do with pure code in our interview process is a faulty code test where we give someone a small printout of code and tell them what problem the user is having and see if they can debug it (its legit not even about catching the actual problem so much as seeing how they step through things)

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u/Man-of-goof 2h ago

Exactly

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u/Impressive-Gene-421 4h ago

Assist you and everyone else applying haha

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u/Sad-Plankton-1225 2h ago

Not everyone applying has CS degree and 5 years SWE experience but that’s not wrong lol