Yeah I have actually been pleasantly surprised with how the output can be structured by providing it with additional instructions to specialize its role.
The ability to control its verbosity to a certain degree means that I can cut out the “You are correct, here are 20 bullet points to show you why”. I can also kind of turn it into an internal documentation search engine that can search our support ticket db, codebase, and documentation articles at the same time.
Still very new to designing LLM agents and AI in general, but I am glad my team and our department seems willing to do things right and roll it out slowly even with pressure from the C Suite to roll it out right away. I don’t trust any LLM to do any particular task in my role, but it’s decent at gathering information quickly since it is literally what it’s been designed to do.
I just wish we stopped getting posters generated by copilot for company events. They creep me out tbh.
I graduated last year and it was a rough search. I think I submitted over 300 applications across LinkedIn, my schools Handshake account, Dice, Welcome to the Jungle, and a few other sites.
I’d honestly recommend just putting a good resume together and going for the spray and pray option with applications. It didn’t seem like anything I did really worked. Career fairs never actually led anywhere for me and I even saw a stack of resumes in the trash one time which was really discouraging.
Eventually I got a call while I was on vacation from a recruiting agency saying they had some opportunities. They said I had applied but I still have no recollection of visiting their website tbh. I landed a job in software support through them with my current company which is buying me out of the contract this coming month after being there for a little under a year.
I was skeptical at first going into software support since I really wanted to do some coding myself but it has so far worked in my favor. I have had the opportunity to do some coding with some of our engineers and my regular job duties also require code analysis so it is a lot more hands on with code than I first expected. There is also a clear path to becoming a software engineer with my current role so I will be pursuing that.
Overall, if you are comfortable doing something other than software engineering as your main role, I would look for similar roles like devops, db management, or anything that might involve some scripting programming as a smaller responsibility. Then you can try to work your way into software engineering from there. Definitely continue to apply to software engineering positions as your man focus though.