Do you have degree ? Eventually I will get one but I wanna start learning and earning in the next yr
@ROFLMAOXD Says:
I'm new and this has been the realest CS career vid I've watched, and it came at the RIGHT time too. I'm a new grad and been (f)unemployed for several months now. I neglected gaining enough real work experience back in college and grinding out learning and building software during my free time. Your vid helped me stay grounded and pushing forward, so thank you for that Larry.
W YT algo mythical pull.
@norske-dalen Says:
Good video! Im comfortably a mid level dev and all of this was good advice for someone new!
@cesarvilla1422 Says:
Well dam I’m 27 gonna be 28 this year
I gave learning python a little try last year and thought it wasn’t for me and had gave up.
This year I signed up for udemys 100 days of code
And picked up the Python crash course book to start this year . I still don’t know where it’s taking me but I gave my self 6 months for 1 day everyday to do a page or a days course
If it goes well I might even sign up for CS classes
Everyone does start from 0
Also time for a degree in my name and build a new skill
It’s never too late either .
I wish everyone luck and success on there journey
@shipperturtle Says:
junior in CS, I have applied to 70+ internships, having weekly breakdowns, really needed this thank you. just keep swimming
@Rdffuguihug Says:
Not a good look being brown and having that title. Please consider optics.
@Nynxxx Says:
My left ear thanks you for this information
@kendrick_ukc Says:
These video is a ❤❤❤❤
@seanwashbot Says:
Good shit, subscribed.
@Sammysapphira Says:
No other career (that I know of) requires the humiliation ritual of leetcode. You study to be a doctor, you apply to a hospital and say "im doctor", you show them degree, they do a short character interview to sceeen psychotic people, and you're done. Whether or not you get the job is based purely around competiton and your degree. They don't have to perform live surgery on a living patient at every single hospital they apply to JUST to get past stage 1 of 3 interviews. Plumbers, electricians, accountants, home builders, marketers, literally none of them need to perform this absurd song and dance.
Only in SWE.
@ayanrosey8597 Says:
It’s not just “comedically annoying”😂 it’s a humiliation ritual
@lukadoncicDevinFather Says:
W, glad to see more black devs. Shoutout to you and PKCodes 👍🏾
@Flimflamed Says:
I'm in my 40's and have been self teaching myself for about a year and a half. I have been using GPT as a teacher to explain the complexities and weirdness of things, but I am trying my hardest not to let it code for me. In fact, I find copilot in VSC intrusive and annoying. I feel I am close! I am at a point where I understand that syntax is just syntax, the language isn't the issue, it's problem solving.
But the hard part is understanding what is the standard? How good is good enough? Is it being able to write tests? Set up a CI/CD pipeline? Deploy to some kind of AWS or something? Every day you learn about redis, lambda, EC2 whatever and it's hard to know what you need to know because what you need to know will be specific to whatever job you end up in.
@TheCreativeNook7 Says:
4:35 valid crashout 😂🤣
@gabgonzales1185 Says:
Gold content. Gold channel
@tim3line Says:
Bro youtube doesn't recommend me your vids fml.
@silverblade43 Says:
Great video man. I think the negativity around the field is incredibly overblown. It is a downturn, but the industry is not dead. Now you will definitely have to do more than just code, but as an engineer that was never the job. You need to be able to break down and logically make decisions. Which I don't think AI will ever be able to do effectively on it's own. Additionally I am similar to you in that I enjoy the work, but I want to enjoy other things in life. Climbing up to the tippy top will never be my aspitation.
@eddyrc645 Says:
This video resonates with me so well because the way you describe your background feels like we’re exactly the same person 😂. I started taking coding serious around when covid struck, and even without any formal education in CS I’ve always tried to remain on my toes by being naturally curious.
What you said at 8:02 just sparked a lightbulb in my head and i think i will adopt this approach because learning how to solve leetcode problems AFTER work never felt right to me because i don’t even want to look at my computer after work 😂
@zabuzamomochi4542 Says:
Hello sir, I am 19 and I dream of working remotely from home / peacefully, literally like solving puzzles learning new stuff & along with my creativity and Ideas - to publish a successful start up. Your video really motivated me as I am just someone who learned js html css and react from yt tutorials and built some basic projects (which unfortunately AI can build in minutes), right now I am trying to build a bigger stronger project (a full stack app) to land a job & in the future - to freelance & focus on my projects! But for now I jst need to get a job so that I can leave my tiring job I have to do because of financial issues, yeh :/ and thank you so much!
@taylorhartman4626 Says:
GREAT lessons!! Was fist pumping on your takes around interviewing. Absolutely spot on.
@braedenwalker6414 Says:
2 minutes in the video is already goated
@kcdiazWTV Says:
500k? Waat?
@pixelparenting Says:
The Dog in the background grabbed all my attention.
@Alex-On-Rails Says:
W take! I started in the field at the same time you did and share a lot of your sentiment and outlook. I had to learn and accept that not knowing everything is ok. I still struggle with asking questions at times because if I don’t know something(or even if I do know what to do) I turn to AI to learn and ask it questions as I work on a task or code. Thanks for sharing.
@carsonjohnson8714 Says:
Starting my first job after graduating on Monday. Found this video and this channel just in time thanks 🙌🏽
@JenovaJireh Says:
I got lucky and had two interviews in a row asking me to cover a project I was passionate about for the technical portion, I built the entire thing from scratch and had SO much to talk about. I got offers from both companies and chose the fully remote position. Also, this is my first SWE role being fully self-taught so I really lucked out dodging the technical interview despite grinding Leetcode like a mad man lol
@freecodecampindy6847 Says:
As a UI Architect, who has interviewed and hired a lot of devs, and been doing this stuff for a long time. I always watched these kinds of videos and am looking for the "um, actually" moments where I can point out what the video creator got wrong... You literally got everything right. There is zero bad advice here. Anyone new to programming should be subscribing to this channel, and I'll be promoting it to people in my community in Indianapolis.
@ronaldcollins9618 Says:
Keep up the great work young brother.
@jordidiaz6907 Says:
I love ur vibe bro like someone said you are a breath of fresh air in this environment where everyone is being pushed to be a 10x 24/7 engineer and understand every single thing and if you don’t you feel behind. I love ur thoughtfulness too it shows you truly care about where you are taking things in life not just being driven by some external validation but truly feel like you are happy with where you are in your career.
@EsotericArnold Says:
This was such a breathe of fresh air
@Vee-j6d Says:
Problem with software engineering are the Pyschopaths.
@fritztk9857 Says:
Yeah 2026 hittin different already. Glad to see you back at it man
@crunckNATIon Says:
I remember when you started your channel for job hunting....now 6 years later and life has passed me by
@dummycodes Says:
oh thats right two uploads in the same week not the same year. we are so back!!
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