Show HN: An AI Career Coach for Software Engineers

of course they can, the key benefit here is its always tethered to being a career coach and has a memory of your career aspirations and it will pull insights from the conversation in a visual manner that no llm does today. I'm looking for feedback to improve it

Re: Show HN: An AI Career Coach for Software Engineers

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Post by esafak » Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

swcc wrote: post #4

esafak wrote: post #3

Why can't the users take their questions directly to the LLM? I'm getting Office Space vibes.

of course they can, the key benefit here is its always tethered to being a career coach and has a memory of your career aspirations and it will pull insights from the conversation in a visual manner that no llm does today. I'm looking for feedback to improve it

Put qualified humans in the loop. This LLM wrapper adds no value.

Re: Show HN: An AI Career Coach for Software Engineers

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Post by swcc » Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 5:19 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #5

swcc wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

of course they can, the key benefit here is its always tethered to being a career coach and has a memory of your career aspirations and it will pull insights from the conversation in a visual manner that no llm does today. I'm looking for feedback to improve it

Put qualified humans in the loop. This LLM wrapper adds no value.

ok thanks for the feedback, what do you mean by qualified humans like a human coach?

Re: Show HN: An AI Career Coach for Software Engineers

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Post by esafak » Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 5:50 PM UTC

swcc wrote: post #6

esafak wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Put qualified humans in the loop. This LLM wrapper adds no value.

ok thanks for the feedback, what do you mean by qualified humans like a human coach?

Yes. It's the humans that add value, not the wrapper. LLMs can trivially remember you are with sessions, and create visualizations if you keep track of the numbers. But are the numbers reliable, and actionable? That also remains to be proven.

Basically, value is created when you do something the buyer could not have done easily, and I'm not seeing that.

Re: Show HN: An AI Career Coach for Software Engineers

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Post by swcc » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 3:54 AM UTC

esafak wrote: post #7

swcc wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ok thanks for the feedback, what do you mean by qualified humans like a human coach?

Yes. It's the humans that add value, not the wrapper. LLMs can trivially remember you are with sessions, and create visualizations if you keep track of the numbers. But are the numbers reliable, and actionable? That also remains to be proven. Basically, value is created when you do something the buyer could not have done easily, and I'm not seeing that.

i disagree, its hard to get hold of humans and you can derive value from an AI with the distilled knowledge of expert coaches. Ai will listen to you a human will refuse a meeting. So I think this is a bridge for someone with a small network or lack of human mentors.

Re: Show HN: An AI Career Coach for Software Engineers

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Post by esafak » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 3:34 PM UTC

swcc wrote: post #8

esafak wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. It's the humans that add value, not the wrapper. LLMs can trivially remember you are with sessions, and create visualizations if you keep track of the numbers. But are the numbers reliable, and actionable? That also remains to be proven. Basically, value is created when you do something the buyer could not have done easily, and I'm not seeing that.

i disagree, its hard to get hold of humans and you can derive value from an AI with the distilled knowledge of expert coaches. Ai will listen to you a human will refuse a meeting. So I think this is a bridge for someone with a small network or lack of human mentors.

That's precisely why your incorporating them creates value. Your company has to do the hard work of making it easy to get expert help. Asking the LLM is easy; I can do that without you.