He sounds like more of a marketer than an engineer.

You said it right Chris, these tech influencers make videos for the sake of attention and views. It's like this other guy made a video not long ago about CSS margins being bad and you should not use them. A lot of BS content and fake drama, again made for views and attention.

I'm a 24 year senior. Unemployed. The salaries offered are 20-40% lower and they want you to know 200-300% more. I have offers but they are all much lower than normal. It's an employer's market.

Very few programmers on KZfaq today seem to be actual programmers. Maybe they actually do work in the field, I guess, but they seem to only have anything to say about career attainment and hardly anything teaching programming or sharing actual wisdom. In my experience, the more seasoned the programmer is, the more concrete thoughts they'll have to share on a technical level. By that virtue, one might as well not consider these "influencers" to be programmers. There should be far more Chris Hawkes, Jonathan Blows, Web Dev Codys, and Brian Wills, but instead we have an invasion of bros selling hustle culture. When that doesn't work, they'll throw out another "why i quit coding" video for the views. I feel bad for any new programmers right now. Not only is the job market in decline but all the voices floating to the top are providing little to no value. Just get a cofounder and make a startup like it's 2013, bruh! /s

I am at a point where I cannot understand what I am doing as developer anymore. I feel like everyone is just leaning on non-code web development. There are plugins coming out that can just transform figma design into actual code... idk man... Furthermore, designs that previously weren't even looked at, now are top notch with emphasized typography, fonts that in my own opinion are unreadable and color palette that makes no sense but ok, i guess that's where we are at nowadays. I just don-t understand this world. Really thought coders are here to code solutions to real world problems, but I don't know if that's the case anymore. Feel like the only people appreaciated are the designers - art people. If I take a look at portfolios all are similar, probably from javacript academy, just with some twists / changes, but everybody talks about themselves as they are so good designers. like I said, I don't understand anymore.

"Coding is all that matters!" Thank you for your words of wizdom over the years, Hawkes! And i think that in this case, you are 100% percent right. Coding has been enough, and "always will be". Hoping for more content from you!

Yeah, there is no 5-year developer who's a genuine senior. No way.

You're spot on; teams need individuals that can look at the new tech, take what they need from it, and add to their toolkit where relevant.

Chris, thank you for the video. Aaron Jack is a cool guy and tries to do his best to help. He lives in Ukraine last I checked. I've found both of your content to be useful. I really like both of you and hope we can all be friends sometime!

Ironically enough, excessive swiping on dating apps pushes down in the algorithm

Good to see you Chris and great advice as always! Yes ChatGPT will change the landscape but not remove all Engineers from the equation.

I took his courses on scraping and Shopify and react and honestly I found it quit valuable and useful I'm not paid to say this and have been a developer for over 20 years. I found his takes to be useful and his content to be above average quality Just my two cents

"Coding is all that matters." Yes, basically. You can bluff into getting an interview, but once you get the coding interview, that's where you will sink or swim.

can you make a video on what we would need in terms of github profile, etc, to get a job? i think this would help a lot of people. thanks.

I watch lot of yt, thank god there are gems like yours channel.

What kind of GitHub would you want?

5 yrs exp... and Senior Dev... Hahah, so true Chris.

Thank you for pointing this out! That video of his really didn't sit right with me.

This based and real, would say this is actually advice as a former staff engineer

Keep preaching bro.

Chad Chris Hawkes destroys Virgin Aaron Jack with FACTS and LOGIC.

Keep going Chris!! Love your take!

I always thought he was someone that took a coding course and went straight into marketing. His knowledge of coding always seemed shallow. I also noticed that he has the appearance of an addict, very pale, frail(especially after his channel took off), thinning hair that isnt MPB, and i can tell hes fighting to hide teeth grinding

Chris throwing shade!!

Hey Chris, it's been awhile, yeah I kind of agree he's a marketer than a coder. Tbh it just feels like a another "techlead" channel that ppl who knowly subscribe to.

Laughing my a$$ off watching this 😂 I'm unsure why you quit mate, but KZfaq requires more straight talking people like you to be on it

AI is doing really good, so there is future for that, but more importantly system design is also required these days. The market is not good for new programmers but for us experienced programmers the market is still very very good.

Sup Chris, how you doin. I enjoyed your talk, take care.

I also was really put off by the GitHub profile flex.. like, okay? Seemed just immature and irrelevant really.

Was a legitimate now nobody channels seem to be incinerated before people get to see them for nothing I have done but TRUTH

Bro if you dropped a little bit of weight(not that you have to or anything) you would look exactly like that bay area rapper G-Eazy.

Hey man, you look pretty tired and burned out 😥 I'm sorry for offering unsolicited advice, but maybe consider working a bit less and do more physical activity?

I think "Coding" is not enough, and never have been. You should be a problem solver. Coding is a part of that for decades now, but if you only know how to code some algorithms, that could not be enough.

5 years developers are joke

There is truth to what he is saying in the video. If you jump out of the framework of thinking working as a software dev in the corporate world is the only way to use your coding skills, what he says makes a lot of sense. If you want to criticize, try to be more specific and respond to what exactly he said that you disagree with instead of just attacking his character and playing the senior dev card. All I'm seeing is rambling and personal attacks. Just my 2 cents