I know the remote aspect is important to you, but having done this exact switch (general backend services dev -> backend dev for a big game company) this requirement is almost certainly going to hold you back. The field is bleeding jobs and there are plenty of people who will go ass-in-seat 5 days a week. Outside of that, there are a surprising amount of roles that generalist SWEs fit into that don't require any experience. It's been a very comfortable foot-in-the-door for myself, at least.
Readit NewsOcerge commented on Ask HN: How can a web Senior SWE move into a good game-dev or game-related job? · Posted by u/llll_lllllll_l
Ocerge commented on It’s been a very hard year bell.bz/its-been-a-very-h... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Sora's app has a 4.8 rating on the app store with 142K rating. It seems to me that the market does not care about slop or not, whether I like it or not.
I don't understand why you're being downvoted, you're not wrong. I think Suno being successful bums me out, I really hate it, but people that are not me love it. I can't do anything about that.
My knee-jerk reaction is "No" if your goal is an easy-mode career that will give you a high salary right out of college, I think that dream is (largely) dead. If you really do love CS/related fields, I think there is plenty of room for you still, but it's no longer a free ride.
I graduated with a CS degree in 2012 so I fully benefited from the tech boom. If I were a senior in high school in 2025 knowing what I know now, I would probably go into Civil Engineering.
I have 13 years of experience and a Senior title, but I'm not sure if that means much. Really I have just worked on web-related problems for the last 10 years (first 2 were LinuxRT USB drivers, which I think more and more fondly of these days) and have hit the same crossroads as OP. The main difference for me I'd say is that I'm actually very serious about moving into management; being an IC these days feels like I am on a never-ending treadmill of boring work. Add AI to the mix and I have never been less motivated than I am now to continue writing code.
So I guess the answer to the question of how I evolved is that I evolved rapidly until my ceiling, which was probably ~6-8 years into my career. I haven't learned much since, nor have I had to. Only now do I feel a stronger urge to look where the puck is going and skate towards it, so to speak.
Ocerge commented on Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages spf13.com/p/the-hidden-co... · Posted by u/spf13
This is a good take. In the consulting context, I've quickly realized that most problems at a business can be broken down into "this will destroy the project on its own" and "this is an annoyance to a good engineer". Language choice is basically always in the latter category, whereas poor management or one egotist is frequently in the former.
Like, my team doesn't know anything about Java, but we COULD ship in Java if forced to. We can't ship if the feedback loop is a 30-minute CI pipeline because there is no way to have a local dev environment.
My team ships with a multi-hour CI pipeline that works 50% of the time and effectively zero local development. It's awful in almost every way developer experience-wise, but rock bottom is deeper than you think!
Ocerge commented on The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit ut21.github.io/blog/trito... · Posted by u/sebg
This is awesome. It also brought back some anxiety from >10 years ago in college that reminds me that computer graphics and my brain do not agree whatsoever.
Golf. I understand the image it has, and it's somewhat well-deserved, but the munis are teeming with fascinating people from all walks of life. I've made more friends in the past 5 years since I picked the game up than I did in the previous 10+ years of my post-college life combined. I love the ego check it gives me while rewarding real practice and patience. I also carry my clubs every round which makes it effectively a 5-7 mile hike each round.
In my experience: definitely not, still plenty of the same leetcode tech screens I've seen over the past decade. But I could see more in-person interviews + white boarding coming soon, it's the only surefire way to keep people from cheating.
Credible in terms of respected by people who want to pay you money for work: yes, absolutely. The reality is a random person who watches too much youtube who thinks college is useless now (not saying this is you OP but it's a real subset of people) is not special enough to overcome the advantage that having a degree gives you.
I use KDE Plasma and it worked just fine. In fact all of my games (including Arc Raiders) are working just fine on Proton 10, maybe running slightly worse. The only issue I've run into is getting battle.net working through Lutris; I ended up manually installing it through Proton 10 on Steam and it worked just fine. Wish I made the switch earlier.