SASyed Ahmer Shah·1d ago20Portfolio Clones Are Keeping You UnemployedLet’s be honest. Nobody needs to see another Netflix, Spotify, or Todo list clone on your GitHub. Clones only prove you can follow a tutorial. They don’t prove you can think critically, debug messy stJoin discussion
SASyed Ahmer Shah·May 132332Does your degree actually matter for your job?I am in a program that feels years behind the industry. I feel like I'm learning more on my own than in class. For those of you working, did your degree actually help or was it just a piece of paper tMLKMMGustav and 31 more commented
SASyed Ahmer Shah·May 132434Are you actually coding or just watching tutorials?I realized I was just a professional video watcher. I could follow a tutorial but couldn't write a line of code on a blank page. It's a lazy trap. How did you guys finally break out of tutorial hell aVOLKMVapeSpotWholesale and 33 more commented
SASyed Ahmer Shah·May 132765What was your first programming language?I started with HTML and CSS but honestly I felt like an idiot trying to figure out JS. I spent way too much time just staring at the screen. What was the first thing you actually tried to learn? Did yILKYBian and 64 more commented
SASyed Ahmer Shah·May 102338AI won't replace developers, but developers relying on AI for architecture will fail.Tools like Claude Code and Cursor are great, but they are not architects. If you are blindly accepting AI-generated system designs, you are building a house of cards. AI can write functions and boilerUCMCBulrich and 37 more commented
SASyed Ahmer Shah·May 62225Your Portfolio Projects Need Real Users, Not Just CodeNo one cares about your weather app, your to-do list, or your movie database clone. Hiring managers know you likely generated half of it anyway. If you want to prove you are a competent engineer, builCMMSFCrisisCore-Systems and 24 more commented
SASyed Ahmer Shah·May 62223MCP Servers Will Replace Traditional APIs for AI Apps ?Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quietly becoming the most critical standard to learn right now, and most developers are ignoring it. We spent the last decade building REST APIs primarily for human-facMMMSFMatias and 22 more commented
SASyed Ahmer Shah·May 62223Knowing Laravel or MERN is Now Just the Bare Minimum ?I see too many developers listing PHP, Laravel, or the MERN stack on their resume as if that makes them stand out. It does not. In 2026, framework syntax is a commodity that any AI can generate. What MMMSFMuhammad and 22 more commented
SASyed Ahmer Shah·May 62120The Junior Dev Market is Broken. Here is How to Survive.The days of getting hired just because you know how to center a div and write a basic API route are over. AI tools write boilerplate instantly. Companies are no longer paying juniors to learn on the jMMSFFMoiz and 19 more commented
SASyed Ahmer Shah·May 1220How to survive framework fatigue without burning outIt feels like there is a new JavaScript framework or database tool released every single week. Trying to keep up with all of them is a fast track to burnout. Here is how I manage the constant influx oJoin discussion
