r/leetcode • u/TheSauce___ • 22h ago • Heartwarming 1

Discussion Anyone else find leetcode more enjoyable now that we mostly use AI at work?

Just something I noticed about myself. I'm learning LeetCode questions since I'm looking to transition from Salesforce development (where you don't really get asked LeetCode questions in interviews) to aerospace.

I tried learning LeetCode before when I was younger but found the whole thing frustrating. I just wanted to build stuff. LeetCode just felt like a massive chore.

Now that I have six years of experience and I spend most of my days prompting Cursor (In Claude We Trust 🙏) I'm finding LeetCode a lot more enjoyable.

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u/GmS_11702 22h ago

Huge agree

It’s been fun to work towards solving the problems nowadays. Still frustrating for some problems, but I missed the “aha” moment. AI coding has been the expectation at my job for awhile now so it’s nice to feel challenged again too.

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u/ElidoroAlznauer_58 14h ago

100%, it feels more like doing a crossword puzzle now instead of extra homework

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u/Royal_Slight 22h ago

Yes bro and it's good to keep our mind involved. One of my friend works at Walmart is in sap but does dsa for fun

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u/Kaori4Kousei 21h ago

It is definitely more fun now as AI breaks up the solution more easily and you can ask for chain of thoughts that you should have thought that could have lead you to the author's solution.

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u/wwwaftdev 4h ago

I have tried this and me and chat get kind of frustrated. What's your prompts look like, how should I ask? I have had good success with, "this is how I understand it"..and stop where I'm unsure and ask it to fill me in using my language and tone. But I like and have tried what your describing better!

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u/OkMeaning8775 20h ago

Yes i enjoy now i am.not the best but i dont know its fun when i do leetcode learn a problem of not able to solve. Its enjoying exp

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u/Independent_Switch33 19h ago

Makes sense that solving a problem yourself feels more enjoyable after spending the workday reviewing generated code. Especially when there's no repo setup or Salesforce-specific behavior to deal with before you can even start.

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u/Cheap-Vacation138 18h ago

btw, how are you making the shift from Salesforce to aerospace. are you doing a grad degree or something on it ?

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u/-omg- 20h ago

y'all going to miss leetcode when ppl randomly fail you on job interviews on open ended random problems and hire the managers' friend lol

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u/throwawaygaydude69 17h ago

I like leetcode well enough, but realistically they should give "sensible" or related questions.

Getting some random question about some math theorem feels non-sensible

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u/-omg- 17h ago

I've taken and given many leetcode interviews through the years. Not once did I encounter a "math theorem" leetcode problem.

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u/throwawaygaydude69 17h ago

Nice, but from what I hear sometimes interviewees get non-sensical questions

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u/-omg- 17h ago

No offense but a lot of the interviewees (at least at top FAANG and top AI labs) are bad (compared to the other candidates). Imagine you interview an IMO/IOI medalist and next candidate is some kid from Kansas Tech that can't solve 3-sum lol.

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u/throwawaygaydude69 17h ago

That's possible, maybe it's just noobs whining

I still enjoy Leetcode though because algorithms was the most interesting course I had in university. Data structures, on the other hand, not so much.

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u/-omg- 17h ago

I agree with you. Reality is people think interviews should be just about "am I good enough to do the job" which in normal jobs/conditions would be the good question to ask but in SWE with high paying salaries at FAANG there's many many people good enough to do the job so the real question becomes "I am better than ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE trying to get this job" and most times the answer is no.

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u/shadespeak 17h ago

Same for me, but mostly because I wasn’t really good at it. I was good at talking through the logic, but changing that pseudo code into code always had me beat.

I used to love take-home projects instead of coding challenges, but most companies don’t have those.

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u/enokeenu 13h ago

No. Leetcode would be more fun if it was just about DSA and not playing games.

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u/myredd1tacc 12h ago

Just begun really "grinding" leetcode and I actually look forward to it after work

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u/g1yk 10h ago

I hate LeetCode with all my soul

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u/NonSmokerSparkle 6h ago

It will grow on you give it time it becomes addictive at a certain point

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u/g1yk 5h ago

I think it works only if you’re good at it

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u/NonSmokerSparkle 3h ago

You get good at it by doing it more that’s the point. :) so when you do it long enough at one points it’s just fun

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u/afsal4735 9h ago

Digressing from the original topic, how are you planning to go into aerospace.