How could an 11 year old be an experienced developer?

Senior sw make a base salary of 165k and principal at 216k. Do you. Consider these low?

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/spacex/salaries/software-en...

> No porn.

What is porn?

> No politics.

What is political?

> No racism or any form of bigotry.

What is bigoted?

> A soft rule of: Don't be an asshole.

What is an asshole?

I doubt anyone actually used the front page to discover things, most likely they will stick to a handful of subreddits.

Art of Electronics is popular but kind of horrible.

1) At the level you can understand it, you don't need it. There are better, more in-depth, shorter books.

1) At the level you can't, it's incomprehensible. You'll run into a brick wall.

It's hard to recommend something without knowing background, but to do electronics well, you need to know basic linear algebra and differential equations, and understand (at least on a cursory level) the Laplace domain. You also need to be comfortable with poles, zeros, and rational functions.

That's a high bar. The most common mistake I see is trying to get further without being over that bar. Below that, you have popular books, many cartoonish, which explain what voltage and current are and the basic components. That's enough to do some basic Arduino projects and robotics, but not really get what's going on more deeply.

Above that bar, there are much more in-depth and theoretical approaches one is ready for the Art of Electronics.

Horowitz and Hill tries to compress that stuff down, toss in a bunch of oddball topics, and it doesn't really work.

It is. I don't know what OP is on about, but load-times on the PS5 are practically non-existent for me. Played the latest Horizon game, and on loading screens I can't even read the first few words of the game-tip. It's never longer than a second, if it's not instant.

0. Vector database admin, seems like the new blockchain...

1. Security (Application Security, Cloud Security, Network Security), developers who are security champions are always valued (and you can always switch careers), and even with LLMs, security is (even more so) still not going anywhere.

2. Learn some basic ML/AI/ETL/Data Engineering. Someone needs to connect LLMs to the real world, create training sets (might be AI assisted... but for at least a few years someone will still need to do some actual coding that will keep the self maintaining LLMs in case it goes down...)

3. Same for Platform Engineering / DevOps.

4. UX skills. LLMs can assist but not yet fully replace humans.

5. People skills. Some things LLMs can't replace. If you are fun to work with, that might be the one thing to keep you hired instead of Alice3.0, the LLM developer that creates boring memes.

Immediately throwing generic into the ring feels wrong to me. So I want to ask you first: What is the motivation or personal need behind your idea that you want to specialize?

- Becoming famous/known in a tech niche like Uncle Bob oder Martin Fowler? - Founding a tech-driven unicorn? - The feeling of admiration of your colleagues and potential employers? - A high salary and high paying job over the next 10 to 20 years? - The intelectual stimulation most of us tech people feel when we play with new shiny things?

I feel like all of these reasons are valid, respectable and OK. Different answers/picks/strategies might apply though.

Seeing forward for you reply. I'm happy to help!