sarpongAbasimi

I just came across a video of a 21-year old dev who built an AI tool to pass leetcode questions.

This guy is so good at problem solving, he solved the entire coding interview problem and honestly, if you could build something like that, a company should just hire you straight up without any questions.

I personally hate some of these coding interviews because if I built a SAAS that's makes 2mil annual revenue and I apply to work for a FAANG company. I will probably be asked if I can reverse a linked list or sort a list and if I am not able to, it means that I am not good enough.

What I am saying is that, the experience of me building a product being used by many people is ignored and until I prove that I can sort a list or reverse a linked list, I am not good enough which I personally think is bad.

I would never endorse cheating in an interview.... but these companies all missed an opportunity to hire someone who seems absolutely brilliant. Would I want to hire someone who just cheated on my interviews in a boring old school way? No. Would I want to hire someone who built an AI tool that allowed them to flawlessly cheat in my interviews and circumvent the anti-cheating measures we thought we had? Absolutely.

Before my first interview, I solved around 1000 problems on LeetCode. After five years of working as a developer, I never — never — had to use that knowledge. So now, I barely remember any of that stuff.

- Is is worth going to a bootcamp to become a software engineer?

- What type of jobs will be in demand going forward after all this AI Boom

- Should I learn to code and even if I do what should I be learning to do with code?

It will be great to hear what you all think because I honestly do not know the future of Tech and in my country, there seem to be less and less job posting for tech roles.

Funny how an American non-profit charges $200 per month for AI while a Chinese hedge fund gives it away for free.Maybe it is because of DeepSeek being some side project.

And also, what I really want to understand is Why is it a problem if Deekseek beats Open AI in the AI race?

Think about this too if the release of a single open source AI model is enough to crash the value of these companies, what does that say about the value they were offering?

Thanks for your feedback. I really appreciate it

wow, this was really deep. Thank you very much for your comments. I guess we just have to figure things out in life ourselves and not rely on any tool to tell us our purpose.

I mean think about it, it will save a lot of people from not focusing on the right things and probably the world will be a better place because everyone will be living with a purpose.

My name is Sarpong from Ghana and it is my first time on here.

This is a story of how I created an event ticketing app,Eventdey,for Africa and Beyond.

Did I waste my time? I do not know but at least I have tried my best to solve a problem and that makes me happy.

The story.

I once wanted to attend an online seminar in Ghana and the procedure was to

- Make a payment for the Seminar - Take a screenshot of the payment - Send the screenshot to the event organiser - And when the time of the event was due, the event organiser will send a link to the event.

I felt that this was a long process and with the little programming I know, I could automate the whole process and do it in one click. I worked for 4 months to build the MVP and deployed it on the 20th December 2024

Since it went live, I have have over 1000 people visit the site with one event created on the platform.

I know that is not a lot for some of you but to me, that is a big deal. 1000 plus users on an application that I created and it didn't break? It means that I have done something right at least I am not a bad engineer .

The event that was listed on the platform has currently sold out,it was a free event, and I am really excited for this but What I do not know is how much this application can scale and how much load it can take.

I guess, I will never know until lots of people use it but I am hear on hacker news to share my story about how the young guy from Ghana who did not know anything about programming has been able to build a web application which is live on the internet that event organisers can use create an event and sell tickets online in Africa, Usa and in Europe.

I do not know who is going to read this but wherever you are in life, when you see a problem and you think you can solve it, just do it. Yes, it takes time and effort but if you really want to solve the problem go for it and do your best. Think of this, if you do not do it who is going to do it?

Will people end up using the solution you create?

Well, that is not up to you for people to use the solution you create but think of it like an Hospital, people walk pass the hospital all the time when they are not sick or a family member close to them is not ill but when these same people are ill or a family member is ill, nobody will ask them to walk into the hospital, they will go themselves.So people will not use your application if they do not need it, but if your application is solving a real problem and people need it, they will find it.

The point that I am trying to make is to do whatever you have in your mind, if it fails at least you tried. Imagine I never created Eventdey, those 1000 visitors won't have been on the site, I wouldn't even have written this text on Hackernews and the one event which has been created on there won't have been created.

Enough of me trying to be a motivational speaker because I am not. Just follow your bliss.

If you happened to have read to this point then thank you very much. Sorry for my bad english, english is not my language. I am an Akan and my language is Twi.

Medase, Sarpong