Programming Throwdown Episode 183

Landing a Software job in 2025.

Take it away, Jason.

Yeah.

Hey, everybody.

So, okay, so we pushed an episode out last month that was about AI-assisted coding.

And a lot of people reached out to me, emailed me personally on LinkedIn or some comments.

A lot of people reached out with questions, with, you know, asking.

I actually met several people I did a Zoom call with who are asking for help, you know, landing their first job.

So since that episode of met, I think, three or four people over Zoom. And so it really gave a ton of

feedback, like it had a big impact. And I was looking at the show statistics, which to be

honest, I never really do, but this will kind of prove it. I was thinking, wow, you know, this episode seemed to resonate with people,

but, you know, we had less downloads than the last time I checked,

which was about a year or two ago.

And then I realized back then we were doing two, three shows a month.

And so what that means is we actually hit like more than double the volume of people or the audience size is actually more than double for that episode.

And that showed me that, you know, there is real interest here.

And, you know, Patrick and I have, you know, we're pretty senior in our careers.

And so, you know, I thought, who's a person

who could really give good advice to people who are in college, just getting out of college?

And that's what made me think of Mark, a good friend of mine over here in Austin. And Mark,

why don't you kind of introduce yourself a bit and tell us like

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