OP I have been trying to understand your mindset throughout this thread and I think you have been open now when you say: "Why not just work the bare minimum to not get pip’d"\
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First off, I think you may be underestimating how much work is required to still be the bare minimum to not get pip'd.\
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Secondly, you talk in this thread about the time it takes to get to X level a Y company, but if you are serious about career progression you absolutely must do far more than the bare minimum. \
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Given that $ is what you are optimizing for, I wonder if you have thought about the question: "Do I want a more sure shot at being FIRE rich, or do I want a small shot at being super rich." Like do you want a larger chance at 1 million or a lesser chance at 100 million?\
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For me personally, I have no interest in big tech. I don't think it is an enjoyable environment and I don't think I would be happy there. But a small close exciting rocketship startup that could make me super rich? That's where I want to be.\
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Disclaimer: I do enjoy gambling. No Limit Texas Hold'em is my favorite hobby. Maybe that's why the risk factor doesn't turn me off as much.

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Joshua Szepietowski

If you want to use generative AI (like ChatGPT) to understand a code base it is important to remember these two principles which are essential to getting the most out of a tool like this:

1. Give as much detail in the prompt as possible as to what you would like the AI to output. Alex's prompt of "Describe what the following code does and how it's structured at a high-level" is (IMHO) a garbage prompt and resulted in a garbage response.
2. Continue the conversation beyond the initial prompt! If anything is unclear or if you would like to dive deeper, keep the conversation flowing!

[Here is my attempt](https://chat.openai.com/share/d7fe1ae9-cd2f-4832-bb72-717ec6d6afc3) at forming a 'better' ChatGPT prompt for the same code that Alex tested with. I think these results are much more helpful.