Senior Dev Reacts to Tech Stack, AI Coding & Remote Work #shorts

Okay, Alfonso, one year as a senior dev. Number one question, what's your tech stack? >> Uh currently it's React, Next, Nest, Java, and Spring. Mostly of it. >> Oh, full stack. Okay, what's your most favorite tool in the front end? If you had to pick one thing that you cannot live without. >> I mean, I don't want to be that guy, but I guess Cloud Code cuz it's so easy to >> Then it's two of us. Then it's the two of us.

>> I mean, who even uses uh what's that that everybody I I even forgot about it. The website I ever used to to Stack Overflow. >> Stack Overflow. No, I'm not I'm not using Stack Overflow nowadays. [laughter] It's dead. It's dead and buried. >> Dead and buried. Okay, now the opposite. What's the tech tool you hate the most? Like the one thing that you freaking hate. >> Uh >> That you constantly like keep running into.

>> I mean, I don't like Spring. >> Okay, honest question, how much code you write with AI for everything you commit? You know, cuz people are always dragging like is it 50% 100%? >> I do a lot of refactoring on on cuz we're doing at least the project that I'm working on. It's it's migration, so there's a lot of refactoring involved in that part. >> Okay. >> And that's actually >> That's like a lot of AI.

>> There's there's a lot there's several stuff that I I I leverage a lot in AI for that. >> Maybe you don't know this one. What's your token spent this month? >> it's not my budget. >> have a Do you have a dashboard cuz I'm I'm worried about >> I mean, it's not my budget. >> have like a dashboard cuz like >> Like out of the top of my head last time, I was using what's that? 60K probably. I don't know.

>> Wow, you're pretty good. I'm I'm a lot lazier. Remote versus in office. If you had to spend your whole life either doing remote or going to the office, pick one. >> I don't want to do it. I think it depends. I did work full remote previously. At least in this where I'm working right now, I have like a really cool relationship with my teammates. And I actually like it. >> office, it's okay. >> It's okay. I like hanging out like afterwards hanging out with teammates, so it's okay.

>> Okay, now almost last one. What's the number one piece of advice you'd give to your junior self three years ago? >> Don't chase trends for chasing trends for the market. I mean >> What What's a trend you wouldn't chase? >> Angular because I did a boot camp that it specialized in in the trend of war uh the back then the big the biggest thing for enterprise was uh enterprise >> it is yeah Angular is like enterprise love.

>> [laughter] >> But I hate I hate working in Angular. I mean you can >> And last question, what's your most ambitious goal right now? You know, it could be like tech you want to learn or like I don't know. You got to go fully remote and move to a tropical island. >> I'm going to write right now right now right now when I own the tech startup I'm working with I'm self I sell mostly front end stuff and I'm dabbling like as a pseudo full stack right now.

>> It's a good one it's a good one. Awesome. Thank you.