Programming

I had a meeting reg GitHub Copilot and Gen AI with a few managers, senior managers and Test engineers across my organization. Some of the questions/demands that the managers had were ridiculous.

One guy wants test cases to be automatically created from JIRA. One wants no coding at all, he would give the api curl and all possible test cases should be created and automated on its own. Alternatively, just the api payload and entire test cases should be created.

One person says they don't want to maintain any test cases or code, and AI should be able to write, execute, and fix any failures on its own. Another person wants AI to decide on its own, which regression suite to run for which change, basically AI to cover all business scenarios in its own.

Another guy wants AI to study a new application and automate all possible flows on its own.

They are hellbent on reducing jobs. I wish AI soon starts doing management works efficiently. I'm sure the day it happens, all these people will shit bricks and start crying that AI is destroying people's lives.

I am in my last month of notice period and I do have couple of offers exceeding my expected CTC. HR from well known tier 1 company asked me why I am looking for another opportunity when I already have X lpa which is more than my expected CTC. I said that company isn’t well known and I would like to work for tier 1 company. He was like, what’s your next offer. I said Y lpa(which was 1lakh less than my expected). He asked the same stupid question “you already have offer near your expectations “, why are you looking for another opportunity. Bro, why would anyone stop at some number when they have time and opportunities to get more salary?? Why can’t they clearly say that they can’t afford us?? Instead of questioning why we are looking for different opportunities. HR needs to stop asking this non sense.

I'm a computer science eng undergraduate, going to be graduated in June, I'm applying rigourously. Today I got a call from one of the companies in Noida, they offered 2-2.5 LPA, that too after 6 months of internship, stipend being 10K. And that too, with a bond of 1Y. That too for a React.js developer profile !
I've no idea where the market is going right now, this seems like a temporal deadzone to me now.

What specific engineering blog posts (single posts, not entire blog sites) have actually mattered to you -- and why? The real “Hall of Fame-y” ones you’d highly recommend, especially to others in your field. Can be beyond Rust - but asking here because Rust blogs are particularly great.

My colleague and I are writing a book on writing engineering blog posts. We want to hear the community's thoughts on why certain blog posts are read to the end, shared, and remembered -- and also crowdsource a few more really interesting ones that we can work into our discussion.