Had the same thought, since it is kinda slow (only have 4 pyhsical/8 logical cores though). But I think vRAM might be a problem (8gb can work, if one has a rather recent gpu (here m1/2 might be interesting)).
Often ICs stay for 2 years in a company, start a project, but aren't happy with org/management/career progression and move to the next company before having to deal with the problems they have created. Eventually other developers who weren't assigned on this project now also need to maintain this project, without having the detailed knowledge of existing mechanisms and prevalent tech debt. Those developers did work on their own project and now need to care about both or even more projects.
The developers are basically invisible to upper management. PMs are the point of contact which translate between higher managment and the devs. Higher management often operates on such a high level, that they are disconnected from reality and work on a abstract level, basically using the inputs of the PMs. The PMs often also were never that technical, instead they realized soon that career progression is only possible in mgmt. This leads to the incentive to spawn new projects a PM can lead.
Eventually there are too many (poorly defined) projects with too few (original) developers. New developers are unhappy since they have to work with legacy code and the devs who are spread over multiple projects and still have some original knowledge, don't have enough time/incentive to properly take care about project development (plus, spent a lot of time in "agile" meetings for each project). Adding no career paths for devs (since the company only focuses on mgmt), this leads again to the starting point, where the ICs leave the company.
I appreciate the approach where you combine a text chat with an online course, though feels a bit strange that the content is on notion.so.
Contentwise, I have the feeling that there are at least 3 distinct skill sets with ~ 10% overlap for a swe career: Passing coding interviews, actual software engineering, climbing the corporate ladder. There is certainly a web comic for that.
Yeah the notion is there for me to capture all the things I want to make sure students know, its a quick way for me to jot down notes and reorganize content when I notice common struggles among students when understanding different concepts.
Eventually, I want to have a fully integrated experience and I have all that planned out. I'm just waiting for more students to join our engineering team and start contributing.
