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Is the era of personal software portfolios over?

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Re: Is the era of personal software portfolios over?

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Post by ethantrang »

agree with most of the comments here that generic software projects are becoming less valuable from a hiring standpoint

perhaps im of the view that since software building will continue to be democratized, i think it becomes about creating more technically challenging projects with the aid of AI, or creating external impact with the software that you create, e.g., making something people care about or want to pay for (partially the quality and execution of your software idea beyond the ide and github). but potentially this is "founder" heavy mindset to this

Re: Is the era of personal software portfolios over?

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Post by justanotherunit »

foopod wrote: post #10

IMO not significantly. Prior to AI the bulk were tutorial based to-do apps or simple crud things anyway, its still easy to tell the difference between those and something more complex (where AI is less useful - or at least requires more skill to use successfully). But I don't think the projects themselves really mattered all that much anyway - its the conversations you can have about them. Understanding the driving f…

Yes, I agree totally. But portfolios served a great purpose to expose what you can and what you know to the world and recruiters. Which would then lead to a opportunity to talk about the projects.

We might be going back to a more oldschool approach where talking directly and presenting themselves would be more of a value again. It have always been an higher value, but now it will be kinda more forced I believe.

Another route would be that portfolios become more blog-based, talking about different solutions and problems for each project, as you are saying.

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