Before LLM some companies were measuring developers performance based on the number of commits (regardless of quality). Not surprising now companies are measuring performance using token usage
If your ultimate goal is to start a business, why not start now already as a side project? It can only help you, even if later you don't want to start your own business anymore you can put your projects on your CV. Also to mention: some people only use their first job to get funding for their side project
Yes. I'm using them from GitHub copilot, since not all models are priced the same I use cheap ones by default, then upgrade if needed.
It happened a few times that ChatGPT-5-mini could not solve something decently.
Claude Sonnet is good enough most of the time.
If not, I switch to Opus and so far it solved all problems Sonnet couldn't
Yup Workers has similar risks as Tunnels.
Cloudflare Pages isn't the same threat as Tunnels, as Pages only gives CF public data access. On Pages you trust Cloudflare for not altering the data served, while on Tunnels you trust CF for handling secret data.
I actually don't really have a data residency / DPA / SCC policy because I was considering using Tunnels for my homelab only
I think the best way to learn is by doing actual projects, either personal or professional. If you need to work on a project with other people, find a remote software engineer job or open source projects to actively contribute to
Any senior software engineer should be able to judge if a practice is high quality, not just US Big Tech
The specific technology or programming language doesn't really matter if what you want is to ship product (it would matter if you were applying to specific job offers). Have a project idea, pick a framework that can solve the problem, and build the project. Most efficient way to learn a lot of technical knowledge
Example of products built by solo devs: check Product Hunt, there are products launching everyday, some built by one person
I think self-hosted should be cost effective if using terabytes of storage and/or high data transfer, as raw storage attached to a server is cheap, and many servers come with unlimited bandwidth (unlimited in data amount, not in transfer speed)
I'm self-hosting a PostgreSQL database but it's not because managed DB didn't scale, I did this choice because I have all the needed technical skills, I don't expect the required resources to double overnight, and prefer paying a fixed amount per month to rent a server rather than a pay-as-you-go managed DB
Totally agree
Check the Wikipedia page "Signs of AI writing", found 2 of them in this post (overuse of em dash and negative parallelism)
Also quickly checked Medvi, their JavaScript looks good...