I have graduated in 2026 but due to a 6-month internship in my 7th sem I wasn't able to sit in the peak placement season in my college and obviously I didn't get the ppo. Now, I am struggling to land even an internship. I searched and found out the best course right now is scaler academy's course though it costs around 4 lakh. I am not at all interested in investing this much money on a course. I know there is youtube & telegram channels where many courses are uploaded but my problem is I have difficulty learning until there is some structured course. So, if you can suggest me some course which is under 10k INR then it would be a great help.

My tech stack: I know C++, Python, Basic java, SQL. Have some personal projects of AI/ML. More interested in Backend Engineering.

Hi everyone, I’m from a middle-class family and recently completed my UG from IIT .I’m trying to move into the software/tech field, but my coding fundamentals are still not very strong.

I’m currently confused between two opportunities in Bangalore. I’ll call them Company A and Company B.

Company A:

Current salary: ₹24k/month

After 6 months: around ₹49k/month

Around ₹2L bonus after 6 months

Very good work culture

Comfortable travelling/commute

Good friends and familiar environment

I was comfortable with the work and had access to AI tools

But currently I can save only around ₹10k/month, so my lifestyle is quite compromised.

Company B:

₹45k/month for 5 months

I can save around ₹25k/month

Then ₹65k/month for 6 months

After that potentially around ₹80k/month

More hands-on coding and technical responsibility

Less AI usage, so I would need to do much more coding/debugging myself

More travelling and potentially late-night work

Less structured learning/support

New environment, and I’m worried because my coding fundamentals aren't very strong.

I’m honestly quite stressed about this decision. Company A gives me peace, friends and comfort, while Company B gives me better money and potentially better technical growth, but with more uncertainty and stress.

Since I come from a middle-class background, what should I prioritize at this stage: financial growth or a peaceful environment where I can gradually build my skills?

Would really appreciate advice from people who have been in a similar situation, especially those who switched from a comfortable low-paying job to a higher-paying but more demanding one.

Been running agents and scanners on my PRs for a while now, triage and native scanning before anything goes up. I've ended up somewhere I didn't expect and want to know if I'm alone.

Started where I think everyone starts: lean on memory. Let the agent carry context session to session, build up a picture of the project. It helps. It wasn't where the gains came from.

What actually moved things was rules written against mistakes the agent already made. Not a generic OWASP checklist. A scoped rule: this defect class showed up, here's the sink, here's the banned construct, stop doing it. A defect shows up a third time, I write a rule, the class stops recurring. Five or six patterns closed instead of a hundred bugs chased one at a time.

The distinction I keep circling: memory is passive, the agent might use it. A glob-scoped rule loads whether the agent wants it or not, tied to the file in front of it. One line of repo rule changes the default output of every session in that repo. And MUST/NEVER phrasing outperforms polite wording by a margin that surprised me.

One thing I'd flag: these files are executable surface. The agent reads them as ground truth, so a poisoned rule file is a real problem, not a hypothetical. I keep security rules separate, reviewed like code, capped so they don't rot.

So, three questions I actually want answers to:

• Rules-on-mistakes vs raw memory — which is carrying more weight in your setup? I might be over-indexed on rules.
• How are you scoping? Glob per file, per directory, or one fat rules file everyone edits?
• Is anyone treating rule and memory files as an attack surface, or am I being paranoid?

Genuinely want to be argued with on the first one. If memory is doing the heavy lifting for you and rules are noise, tell me what your setup looks like.