u/Khenghis_Ghan

So I am between a hybrid RAV4, hybrid CX-50, or even an EV SUV, thinking an Ioniq but I haven't explored the EV market really at all.

I like the idea of a hybrid, but it seems like there's an intrinsic ineffiency that, if it's in EV mode you're dragging around all the ICE metal. On the other hand, I do a lot of hiking, camping, and backpacking, and the range of EVs seem like they'd be kind of limiting compared to the general availability of gas stations everywhere and you can't usually get the full estimated range, and, if you go somewhere where there isn't a charging station, you actually have about half that range to get back.

Also what are people's opinions on used cars from rental companies? I always drive my rentals carefully because I assume they're going to check it when I take it back, but I've read other people "drive the piss out of 'em" and really abuse the rentals, which is why rental places are so keen to offload their used cars after 20k miles or so. What's this subreddit's consensus?

I'm a senior engineer, I've got ~6 YoE plus a graduate degree in a non-CS engineering discipline and computational physics. Most of that 6 YoE was at top tier megacorp/national lab places but I accepted a new job 6 months ago and, it just isn't a good fit and I want to go somewhere else, but I'm blown away at how much agentic coding has become accepted just in the last few months. I hate it but it seems unavoidable, I just added a line about agentic coding in my resume. Almost no one on my team is developing code themselves anymore other than me, who's increasingly pulled that direction, and the guy who's been doing it 30 years, they just consult Claude and frankly don't even review it afaict, they have Claude handle the reviews too. Which, IMHO it does show, the last PR I reviewed it was clear the guy just trusted the AI, there were little whorls of AI behavior like switching types back and forth for no discernible reason. I'd love to go somewhere where I'm actually solving problems, but, that era may be over, this may just be how software is written now in the same way almost nobody is writing in assembly any more, they use a compiler or interpreter.

Do I need to get back on the Leetcode treadmill, or are interviews now unfolding with Agents allowed? I'm worried I've already let so much atrophy in just the last few months using an agent. A top tier company reached out and, I've interviewed with them before a year or so ago and it was pretty brutal, I would describe the process then as being assaulted by Leetcode rather than interviewed, there wasn't anything substantive to actually get a sense of the person's engineering capabilities, has that changed for most or the major companies?