I'm excited to be here learn and collaborate with all the talented engineers here. 😊

I noticed a pattern when I code, especially on net-new features or in personal projects (where everything is net-new) I overcomplicate and overthink a lot of implementation. I try to make things scalable but sometimes I feel like it slows down my development a lot, especially when I end up sitting for 40 minutes without having written much code because I’m just thinking about the best way to implement something somewhat complex. And then next thing I know I thought of it wrong and it wasn’t the great implementation I thought it would be and feel like I should restart because it sucks 😂 When working at my job I can get a lot done, on the upper end of how much my peers can do, but there already is so much code in a code base I can “model” off of which is why I can do so. Net-new features always throw me in a loop. What are ways I could speed up the time between understanding the initial problem, to start implementing a high quality solution? Outside the obvious “practice” answer because thats a given lol. Note that I am mostly avoiding the use of AI. On job and out of job. This is for learning purposes.

Hayk, I have been to solve this problem in my code for a few days, I tried ai, tried asking ai questions, try searching in documentation. I also kept asking myself what concepts to put for this feature, tried searching youtube for similar patterns, tried commenting out code one piece at a time when I thought there was an issue, try using the break points and looked at scope and call stack. I still can't find out how to solve the problem. I tried to go to the weather project in the course and figure this out to but that was for async wait, and my project I don't think use async wait. I asked ai do I use async wait for this problem, and it said no. The problem was my city and time values will show even before clicking the show city button, but I needed the setInterval for the city and time values to change and update live on the screen. The problem is when I use set Interval it would show the city and time values even before clicking the show city button, but when I comment it out, the city and time values will show on the screen when I click the show city button, but the city and time values will be static and won't update live. I commented out this piece of code cityIntervalId = setInterval(updateCityTime, 1000); , and then my city and time values, like the city, time(hours,minutes, seconds) showed on the screen when the user click, but the time was static. Hayk, in real world applications, don't you use SetInterval and at the same time the results will only show when clicking the show button or do I need to choose between keeping setInterval and allowing the city time values to show before clicking the button and remove the showCityButton by writing the remove event listener for the show city button to prevent memory leaks and then remove the show city button from the html file or can this be fixed where I can have setInterval update the city and time and only show when users click the show city button? Hayk, another thing is, Even though I went through the JavaScript tutorial of how to use breakpoints, I don't know what values is unexpected, like how do you know when that value is unexpected? Hayk, can you review my code, but also make a video of how to use the breakpoints, local scope, and call stack for this problem to just to see how I can debug this? I was trying to get more practice on the debugging using this debugging strategy and I am just trying to get better at coding and web development.

Hope you guys are having a great weekend! Just wanted to give you a quick heads up that I'll be flying around Europe Dec 2-4. Nothing changes for the group calls, we'll have the 2 calls next week. For next week's 1/1 syncs, hit me up either tomorrow (Monday) or end of the week. During my flights I'll be slower to respond. PS. Let me know if you're around any of these cities in December, I'm down to meet up: Bari, Milan, St Moritz, Zurich, Paris

In the last session yesterday we covered AI assisted development and tools like GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex. Today we've also set up load balancing for our production system and I recorded the 2 primary approaches when setting it up: 1. With App Platform 2. With a Regional Load Balancer Also complete the exercise while watching, don't just passively consume. And share the results in the community once you're done with it 🙌