I’m a junior engineer, but was wondering when you have an idea like this, how do you go about quickly getting this up and running online? What does your tech stack look like?
- Cursor for IDE (Claude 3.7 Sonnet + Gemini 2.5 Pro for code gen)
- Rails app with an embedded React frontend (Rails for API routes / React for everything frontend)
- Deploy the Rails app to GCP Cloud Run with min_instances=0; use the tiniest GCP Cloud SQL instance for Postgres; and spin up a tiny cheap VM for running background jobs (same Rails app, just run in sidekiq mode instead of Rails mode)
DigitalOcean droplets (cheap servers) are a great option for doing it all on a single VM.
I just ordered the ZSA voyager after some investigation into this question, especially relating to ergonomics. Hopefully it will be the ideal layout for me.
That's true. My thoughts are that at a more junior/mid-level, many of the problems assigned to engineers are smaller and more well-defined. They also involve a lower depth compared to projects at a senior levels or above. I can imagine these tasks are more along the lines of what O3 or similar AIs will excel at.
I'm interested in where junior/mid-level engineers should target their learnings to adapt to these areas.
