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5 ways to operationalize generative AI in legacy systems

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Everything HAS to Be Done With Copilot

At my team at MSFT, they are literally threatening us via usage dashboards showing personal and team level copilot cli usage. Now they are forcing us to do EVERYTHING with copilot cli--via mcps--and cli auto tags all prs to indicate created via agent. If you don't, your AI usage metrics will be low and will be used for performance stack ranking. And I can't even find a reason to push back because honestly I haven't found any use case yet that can't be done with cli--the mcps read documents fr

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Just laid off after 25 years, how do I find a new job in 2026?

The last time I interviewed for a new job was in 2001. Today I was laid off (along with a few thousand other people). I have no idea how to go about getting a new job in 2026. The way we did it back then obviously doesn't apply anymore. What are the best ways to job hunt now? submitted by /u/e37d93eeb23335dc [link] [comments]

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Asked a colleague in code review to extract magic numbers and got told “devs should know”

Had a slightly frustrating code review interaction and I’m curious how others would handle it and if I’m overthinking this or not? The colleague submitted a PR with logic like: > if abs(lat) > 180 { ... } and similar checks using 90 and 180 regarding coordinates. I asked what those numbers meant and asked if he could extract them into a constants enum so the intent is clearer: > if abs(lat) > Constants.maxLatitude { ... } My thinking was just readability and maintainability, so it’s more o

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how do employers view hardware projects if your not focused on embedded?

So I want to branch out and try new things over the summer. I plan on doing a retail job, for the capital, and then maybe dabble with Arudinos or something. My question is, is it worth spending time on projects like these? or should I focus on software and software interests since I want to become a software engineer? submitted by /u/Drairo_Kazigumu [link] [comments]

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How to handle experience deep dives as a sr engineer?

I’m a senior SWE and have been for a while, but sometimes I run into interviews that make me feel underqualified. At big tech companies I’ve worked on well-defined parts of big systems (e.g., ads auction logic—grouping, pricing, experimentation). I can go deep in my area but I haven’t been in one place long enough to own an entire end-to-end system or every adjacent component. In interviews, I’ll get questions along the lines: “What database stores the ads candidates?” “How does the CI/CD

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RANT: I don't understand why I have to tell my husband to turn the TV down every single time he comes home from work early.

Our house is small, and my office is on the other side of the living room. He knows I work from home. I've worked remote since covid. Sometimes he comes home from work early and does the rest of HIS work from home, in the living room, with the TV on, and it's loud. Right now he's watching baseball, I guess. Every single time, I have to ask him to turn it down, and even then I still hear it. I put headphones on and close my door, but I don't think I should have to. We have a finished basement w

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Lost power today for 3ish hours.

Just wanted to give an example of a good company/job vs a bad one. Randomly, lost power at home. It is 68 and sunny. Grabbed my work phone, went to a local park, and answered emails or teams messages from my phone. Pretty much told everyone I lost power and no one cared. Got takeout for lunch as I didn't want to open the fridge and had a lovely day. Yes, I know I am privileged to work for a company like this. No, not hiring. Yes, once power came back on, went back home and caught up on any w

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Manager talked to me for drinking water on Zoom

I started a new job a few weeks ago and understand eating on Zoom is bad etiquette in this company culture. I never have done it here. However, my manager spoke with me about not drinking water on Zoom & I brought up how HR told me it was fine to have sips of water during calls when I asked regarding that. She replied that “They only say that because legally they can’t not allow you to drink water… but I would try not to drink anything until after the call.” Like ok that’s fine for short calls b

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Is it normal for your boss to get mad at your team for finishing sprint tasks early?

My boss is obsessive over tracking everything. If anyone on my team finishes tasks early or late or just not at the exact amount of story points estimated he gets pissed. He always calls it a failure and if you want to pull something from the backlog he always is against it because that’s “affecting the sprint scope”. In my opinion this is just stupid because it just encourages us to stretch out tasks for 2 weeks even if we can finish early. Is this normal? submitted by /u/Atomical1 [l

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The best remote team I ever worked with had a Notion page that sounds completely cringe. It changed how I think about remote work.

every team member had a card. Photo, role, but also like, do you have pets, favorite food, one thing people don’t know about you etc.. Sounds like total corporate wellness nonsense. I would have rolled my eyes if someone described it to me But when I joined and they sent me the form to fill in, and then I was reading everyone’s cards and it felt really wholesome, I felt welcome to the team, and I was happy to let them read about me Growing up we had this thing called a “spomenar” - a little n

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Got the remote job!!!

I can now do my hour walk in the morning and gym in the evening. I can eat my one meal at 12 cooked at home and not have to worry about anyone offering me cake every week for a birthday party or candy everyday and get offended when I decline because I don’t want diabetes and heart disease. submitted by /u/mrmonnet2019 [link] [comments]

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