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Accept $175,000 for a Senior Software Engineer Role?
Austin shares an upcoming software engineering job and responds to earlier TikTok comments about accepting $175,000 for a senior position. The original scr
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GEM Fellowship: How I Got a Full Ride to CMU for Software Engineering
How Austin Starks used the GEM Fellowship for a full ride to CMU's software engineering master's, plus where to begin the GEM and CMU applications.
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AI Makes Doing the Impossible Possible
Austin explains how AI expanded the software he could build alone, using options backtesting and a large headline-research workload as examples. The animat
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The Dark Side of Coding With AI
A solo founder on burnout from maintaining nearly 3 million lines of AI-written code, daily alerts and thousands of dollars a month in compute.
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How to Pass the AI Coding Interview at Big Tech Companies
How to pass the AI coding interview: understand the codebase with a diagram, plan, review the plan out loud, and finish with test-driven development.
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AI Makes the Impossible Possible: The Original Recording
In the original camera recording, Austin discusses how AI changes the scope of projects a solo software engineer can attempt, including options backtesting
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Got a SWE Job Offer?: Here’s How to Ask for More
How I approach negotiating a software engineering job offer: interview preparation, competing offers, expressing enthusiasm and asking for a higher compensation package. I walk through the conversation and the response.
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The AI Coding Interview: Can You Build Beyond a Demo?
I walk through an AI coding interview: inspect an unfamiliar repository, explain its architecture, plan a bug fix or feature, write the failing test first, and verify the result. Explain what the tool changed and how you know it works.
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Find Better SWE Jobs: Let Codex Help You Apply
Use your résumé and job preferences to research suitable software engineering roles with Codex. Build a list of companies, work through applications, and write company-specific answers together.
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Stop Getting Ignored: Build a Resume That Stands Out
Build a software engineering résumé with clear experience, measurable impact and two independent AI reviews. Apply the same process to LinkedIn and GitHub.
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No Internship Yet?: Build Experience That Counts
Build experience for your first software engineering role through substantial projects, open-source contributions, research work, hackathons and internships. Learn to explain your contribution on your résumé.
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How I Got a $475K Offer: My SWE Job Search Playbook
Austin shares his software engineering job-search experience and introduces a practical course on experience, résumés, applications, interviews and negotiation.
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AI Job Search: My $340K Headway Offer, Including a $20K Sign-On
How I used AI to improve my resume, find matching software engineering roles, and apply, leading to a $340K Headway offer that includes a $20K sign-on bonus.
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Figma Software Engineer Offer After 6 Months of LeetCode: $300K a Year
I got a Figma software engineer offer after six months of LeetCode and system design prep. Around $300K a year, with Figma's revenue and gross profit growth.
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System Design Interview: From 1 User to 1 Million. Eight Steps.
Eight system design interview steps that take one app from a single server to one million users: cache, replicas, a CDN, a queue, then shards.
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Technical Design Doc Template: The 8 Sections I Write Without AI
How to write a technical design document: understand the task, weigh trade-offs, learn your company's stack, then fill an 8-section template, without AI.
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How I Code Review a 50,000-Line AI-Generated Feature
How Austin Starks code reviews a 50,000-line AI-generated pull request before shipping it to NexusTrade, the platform trading $40,000+ of his own money.
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How I Landed a $300K+ Remote Big Tech Job, and the Free Course
How Austin landed a remote big tech job paying over $300,000 a year, and the free course on resumes, applying with AI, LeetCode, interviews and negotiation.
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Free Software Engineering and AI Courses
Watch Austin explain his software engineering job search and his free software engineering, algorithmic trading, and AI agent courses.
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Take Classes, Build Projects, Get Experience
Austin discusses taking classes, building projects and gaining experience to become a software engineer. The original recorded explanation and demonstratio
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Offering Me Less Than I Made as a Junior Engineer
Austin describes declining an earlier senior software engineering offer and accepting a higher-paying mid-level role. He explains why he chose to negotiate
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Wait, Not Every Plan Has UltraFast?
Austin reacts to the UltraFast option shown in Codex while filming his development workflow. On-screen text asks: “Y’all really waiting 30+ minutes to fix
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Reply to @DB: Vibe-coded before AI existed
Austin Starks: If this was vibe-coded before AI existed, that’s even more impressive than me sitting down and writing the code
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Reply to @Ivan: AI lets smaller indie builders create websites
Austin Starks: What you’re seeing is smaller indie folks actually able to create a website