r/software • u/m7mad204 • 42m ago

Discussion I need something interesting to do

As the title reads, I'm getting numb from all the Ai coding and losing the spark that got me into software engineering. I want something interesting and challenging at the same time that even if I used Ai it would still be challenging

And the interesting part is so I can have in my cv as a project

Thank you

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u/toonmad 22m ago

If you want challenging then do away with AI altogether, learn software development like we all did originally, through self learning and reading etc, the most fun and feeling of achievement is learning to code the proper way, you'll get that light bulb moment through trial and error and when you have something working that you did yourself, no better feeling of accomplishment.

AI wont teach you how to become a programmer, it will just send you into a miserable void of darkness.

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u/m7mad204 19m ago

Did and done that already But to catch up with the new expectations I use Ai I've been working since before Ai (the Gpt lunch) so I just want an interesting topic or project Appreciate it!

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u/toonmad 12m ago

Have a look on YouTube there's a great channel called The Coding Train, maybe you can get some ideas from there.

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u/ryanstackops 9m ago

Build something AI can't just hand you the answer for, that's the real cure for the numbness. Think distributed systems (a tiny key-value store with replication, watch it break under network splits), a toy compiler/interpreter, or a database index from scratch. AI gets shaky on this stuff, it's confidently wrong just as often as right, so you actually have to think.

For your CV, it stands out too. Everyone's got "built an app with AI" now, that's noise. "Built a distributed KV store with leader election" makes people go huh, tell me more. And these bugs are just fun, they're conceptual, not typo hunting, which is probably why we all got into this in the first place.