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I still don't get why people who've done long internships or co-ops aren't considered to have "experience". What's up with that?

How else do freshers survive in this changing industry? Not everyone comes from a Computer Science degree; there are students who gain experience working as interns.

I think it's time tech companies considered internships (like 3 months+) as experience.

Disclaimer: I'm not a fresher and have more than 7 YOE. I just wanted a discussion around this for freshers

For developers — outside of writing code itself, what part of your workflow do you find the most frustrating or repetitive?

Things like setup, coordination, debugging environments, or anything around the actual development process.

What's the most infuriating, time-consuming bug you ever had to chase down, and what was the ridiculously simple cause?

Mini Shai-Hulud has yet again reportedly compromised 160+ packages, including parts of the TanStack and Mistral ecosystems. The interesting part is the attack path: instead of simple typosquatting, it abused GitHub Actions cache poisoning and trusted publishing/OIDC workflows, making the malicious packages appear legitimately built and published.

Even with gpt-5.5 xhigh I've noticed chatgpt writing code in a manner that's not really easy to comprehend, even for tasks that aren't too complex. I was thinking that maybe it's just because it's not the way I would write it.. but then I remember doing PR reviews for many of my colleagues and most of the time it was more understandable than what the AI assistant generates. Is there anyone else with the same feeling?

My first resubmission to App Store Connect has been in the Ready for Review stage for 10 days now; how long does this process typically take?

I'm teaching myself to code and I started with a browser extension. I originally had no plans to publish it and had made it as a joke for a coworker. It tracks your tabs and shames you like a HR manager who is slowly cracking, getting progressively more stressed and judgemental the more tabs you have open. But now I've got tons of other people who are asking for it so thought publishing would be easier then helping all of them, emailing the file and walking them through installing it.

I've never published anything before and there is a spot that asks you for a url. Do I need to have a live website for it to get approved or is that actually optional and won't affect my submission?

I have been learning to code for about a yearn now (as a challenge to myself), and last week I deployed my first project that I built from scratch (so a little proud moment). It was a lot  harder than I had expected and took most of my weekends. 

What I found tripped me up was:

• Environment variables. App worked perfectly locally, in production it had no idea any of my env vars existed, and took about 45 minutes to find a naming mismatch.
• Localhost in my database URL. In production, localhost resolves to nothing useful.
• Build command vs start command. These are different things, and I had them in the wrong fields.
• Hardcoded port. Production environments assign ports dynamically.

What actually helped me:

• Using a platform that abstracts server infrastructure so I could focus on how my app behaves in production without also learning DevOps
• Reading the build logs instead of guessing and redeploying
• Writing detailed logs in my backend from the start

What helped you when you were first getting into deployment?

Hi,

To understand your views as developers, I need some help.

I am not a developer but I am working on a project which deals with API and SDK. The product offers API and SDK along with a webapp version.

We did not have a seperate developer's portal earlier. Just the API doc.

But, now, we want to address and focus on developers' pain points seperately. And hence, we will have a developer portal. Where on the main page, I am thinking to add Doc, tutorials/examples, API dashboard etc. in the navigation bar.

There will be code samples to show some of our usecases and features as well. Stats, data-security etc, too.

But what would you expect from this portal as a developer? Do you want it to be interactive (where you can upload demo files and see API working? We have a playground too). Would you like to see before-after results with our API or product? That you can hear or feel.

Would you like to explicitly see who this API is for? Or not?

Would you like to know a little about features or not?

Would you care about some ready-to-use and minimal-efforts templates to try for your usecase? And integrations?

What would you hate on the page? How do you want to see and know things about an API? What else would you love to try and see?

It would be so amazing if I could get your help. It will help me provide with the right details to devlopers, removing the fluff.

Thanks.

Disclaimer: I use AI and have no issues with it

Is it just me but why does it feel like out of no where we have so many AI experts? I mean from CEO’s to cooks, they talk like experts on this. It’s weird.

That's r/developers, not r/developer (this subreddit right here).

r/developers started showing up in my Reddit feed not long after I subscribed to r/developer -- but absolutely every time I attempt to post or even comment in r/developers I find that they have deliberately sabotaged the forum, by AutoMod.

Specifically, they never ever allow me to post anything because every single time they claim I'm including "external links" which violate the forum rules... the first time it was "my.domain.com" and today it was C#.NET and VB.NET -- except that even after I edited the post to "C# DotNET and VB DotNET" the forum and its phony AutoMod then decided that VB DotNET was still an external link, so I was still not allowed to post.

Feels to me like r/developers is literally there to imitate r/developer, but the mods are just plain trolls who make totally phony posts (which look a whole lot like the legitimate posts in this subreddit here) in the interest of pissing people off and making them think r/developer is to blame. I like to think I'm pretty on-the-ball with this stuff, but it still took me a few repetitions of this troll-mod behavior in r/developers to figure out that it was NOT happening in r/developer

If you want to save time by avoiding this big block of text, you can just skip to the end where I have asked the question.

So we're evaluating identity verification API and keep running into the same claim across every vendor's website. "proprietary AI" "built-in-hous" "our own models". It's on literally every homepage and at this point it's starting to feel like "artisanal" on a coffee shop menu, a word that used to mean something and now means nothing. But here's the thing, I'm not sure its entirely meaningless either. Like there is probably a real difference between a vendor that actually owns and trains their own models versus one that is stitching together AWS recognition, a third party OCR library and a watchlist API and calling it a platform. The question is how do you actually tell the difference from the outside when every vendor is making the same claim. From an API integration standpoint i also care about the practical stuff. Latency at scale, sdks that don't feel like they were written in 2015, webhook reliability and whether the documentation is written for developers or for the sales team's Powerpoint. We're building on this so the developer experience matters as much as the accuracy numbers.

So what are you guys actually integ͏rating in production right now and has anyone done the work of figuring out which proprietary AI claims are true?

What are you building this week? If you’re in stealth, pitch only your background and story as a founder.

I’m a VC investor from Forum Ventures, a B2B accelerator and preseed fund managed by former founders.

At the early stage, VCs care most about you as a founder rather than the business concept.

Tell me about your background as a founder in a DM! I’ll connect if there’s a fit.

Feel free to also use this thread to get your own project out there.

Hi

Our head of technology (not technical at all, sales background) has discovered vibe coding and I'm genuinely worried. He's a good guy with good business ideas and I want to be supportive, but the idea of huge technical debt is stressing me out.

He's spent some time with ChatGPT and Claude Code and now believes that all of our enterprise systems are fair game, there to be replaced by vibe coded projects. I'm not exaggerating.

Surprisingly, after a few hours he's got working prototypes of a couple of apps.

I want to support AI innovation in the business but I thought using it as an adjunct was probably going to be the starting place (not vibe coding replacements for our industry standard production systems.)

As someone that has postgraduate studies in IT, I would have thought what he lacks in technical experience, he would make up for with some careful project management and consider the business risks of such an approach.

Am I just living in 2025? Like I said the proof of concept is impressive, is this actually becoming a viable approach in 2026? I don't see how it could scale or become trustworthy to start building business processes upon.

Interested to get people's thoughts

Thanks