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I don't get performance reviews, but all evidence says I'm doing good. Better than good, even. But when I look at old code or think about mistakes in the past, I just feel like I suck.

So what you're saying is you've grown as an engineer
What Noodle said.

can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked through code going “wtf who wrote this garbage”, git blame and I did two years ago LOL
 

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One of or autistic junior engineers brings up problems in our code to me and I always ask first "was that from me?"
 
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I decided last year to make the switch to IT. This was basically when the big DOD message went out that Cybersecurity was needed everywhere and there were thousands of jobs unfilled. Ideally, I would look at help desk and try to move up into Cyber SOC and eventually Cloud. But things are moving so fast, im not even sure what things will look like by the time I can retire from the military next Feb.
 
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Cybersecurity jobs pay pretty well IMO. Even the junior ones. As far as the IT field goes there is no other discipline, if you will, full of more incompetent retards though. I like our security architect but I avoid talking to anyone else. It stuns me how stupid they are.
 
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Cybersecurity jobs pay pretty well IMO. Even the junior ones. As far as the IT field goes there is no other discipline, if you will, full of more incompetent retards though. I like our security architect but I avoid talking to anyone else. It stuns me how stupid they are.
Hey wait I'm a security architect!
 
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If the rank and file security people were more than "durrrr I press button on pen test software I don't understand. If it gives me red light I tell u to fix it" I'd actually try and respect them.
 
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Now that you guys mention it I feel like I should just switch from developer into security.

You just tell everyone "I don't like that, we can't do that" and then do nothing right?
 
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TJT

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For the non retards in cyber security who knows what's up a lot of the work appears to be policing lazy developers. I am also guilty of this at times but real dumbass shit like your internal API having a full admin access I AM in AWS is painfully common.

Scoped roles and access makes dev teams rage uncontrollably even when they know it's good practice.
 
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Now that you guys mention it I feel like I should just switch from developer into security.

You just tell everyone "I don't like that, we can't do that" and then do nothing right?
lol this is pretty much our security engineer. Just had to get two senior PEs to set him straight on a more technical authorization implementation I’m working on.
 

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For the non retards in cyber security who knows what's up a lot of the work appears to be policing lazy developers. I am also guilty of this at times but real dumbass shit like your internal API having a full admin access I AM in AWS is painfully common.

Scoped roles and access makes dev teams rage uncontrollably even when they know it's good practice.
Wild. You’d think people would use AWS config at the very least. There’s also multiple products for finding potential security issues like this. Very rustling.
 

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How do you deal with the retards beneath you?
I am on my morning standup with my architects under me. I'm a senior with 4 other architects under me. I just spent no fucking joke 10 minutes yelling at them for thinking like engineers and not considering the bigger picture as a enterprise architect. really dumb shit man. I don't want to give details. but to sum up i treat all our staff engineers and platform architects like children.

we in the last 2 months have had 1 breach that was because of idiot devs leaving a publicly exposed endpoint with implicit trust that allowed someone to spam us with bullshit accounts and only caught it due to a smart engineer asking why we were seeing abnormal traffic. another moron decided to test avi features and exposed an on prem resource that had a critical php RCE on it that went undiscovered for 18 months and we are just lucky we didnt get popped.
 
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For the non retards in cyber security who knows what's up a lot of the work appears to be policing lazy developers. I am also guilty of this at times but real dumbass shit like your internal API having a full admin access I AM in AWS is painfully common.

Scoped roles and access makes dev teams rage uncontrollably even when they know it's good practice.
yes. hurr durr we borrowed this terraform from dis vendor mr architect can you review the config. uh why the hell is this private link terraform standing up internet gateways etc.

we are painfully trying to get the CICD pipeline solid with security gates so these dummies can develop and not waste my time. but we allow excessive permissions on dev and engineer roles. like access to customer managed key policy.
 

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If the rank and file security people were more than "durrrr I press button on pen test software I don't understand. If it gives me red light I tell u to fix it" I'd actually try and respect them.
our internal pen testers are rock stars. they routinely rip apart our devs. hurr durr i got your shit ai model to leak customer data. do better retard.
 
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I feel pretty good that they pentested a part of my product that I spent months threat modeling and working with them on, and they had no findings.
 

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our internal pen testers are rock stars. they routinely rip apart our devs. hurr durr i got your shit ai model to leak customer data. do better retard.
For sure. It's just the bar man. For every good security dude there's a dozen complete retards who I wouldn't want on the help desk and I have no idea why they have a job.

Tons of idiots go right into security though because they heard it pays well. Which it does. Entry level security pays more than entry level dev does and seems to turn less people away. As it doesn't have the higher bars of programming and such required by dev.

However, every single good security dude I have ever met spent time in one of two places. Years in software engineering or years in network engineering.
 
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For sure. It's just the bar man. For every good security dude there's a dozen complete retards who I wouldn't want on the help desk and I have no idea why they have a job.
I feel ya. Most are retards. I hope I answered your question though :p
 
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lol our devs just got ass blasted. why arent you agentic coding. why not use AI. why are your delivery schedules months and not hours NOW NOW NOW. why not using cline, codium cursor and zed