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Big Tech Engineer Struggles (+ Write For Taro!)

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Big Tech Engineer Struggles (+ Write For Taro!)

Rahul Pandey
Dec 2, 2022
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Big Tech Engineer Struggles (+ Write For Taro!)

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Our next live event on Dec 17 is about building deep relationships in tech (i.e. networking which doesn’t suck). Details are in the LinkedIn event.

Quick hits from Taro:

  • Asking questions is NOT a sign of weakness: https://link.jointaro.com/pj34UDSNucpgryzr5

  • Don’t spend too much time just reading code: https://link.jointaro.com/RnVXsjn88phzrYGY7

  • From a senior eng at DoorDash: “How to talk about unexpected problems in performance reviews?”

BTW, Taro now has a blog at joinTaro.com/blog! We’re looking for guest contributors. You’d be a good fit if: 

  • You work as a software engineer or manager (probably Senior+)

  • You care about helping other engineers

  • You have an insight or contrarian perspective on something non-coding related

We’ll take care of distributing your post and tagging you. If you’re interested, reply to this email!

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Around the web

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new generative AI chatbot, was released 3 days ago. It immediately went viral due to both the creativity and quality of the produced text. 

The fact that even people immersed in the field of AI are amazed is a sign of how important this technology will be, and software engineers will be deeply impacted.

Some interesting takes: 

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josh @jdjkelly
Google is done. Compare the quality of these responses (ChatGPT)
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6:29 PM ∙ Nov 30, 2022
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Amjad Masad ⠕ @amasad
ChatGPT could be a good debugging companion; it not only explains the bug but fixes it and explain the fix 🤯
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7:53 PM ∙ Nov 30, 2022
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Happy December!

Rahul & Alex

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