Show HN: An AI Career Coach for Software Engineers

2 swcc 5 7/25/2025, 4:17:41 PM swcareercompass.com ↗

Comments (5)

esafak · 18h ago
Why can't the users take their questions directly to the LLM?

I'm getting Office Space vibes.

swcc · 18h ago
of course they can, the key benefit here is its always tethered to being a career coach and has a memory of your career aspirations and it will pull insights from the conversation in a visual manner that no llm does today. I'm looking for feedback to improve it
esafak · 17h ago
Put qualified humans in the loop. This LLM wrapper adds no value.
swcc · 17h ago
ok thanks for the feedback, what do you mean by qualified humans like a human coach?
esafak · 17h ago
Yes. It's the humans that add value, not the wrapper. LLMs can trivially remember you are with sessions, and create visualizations if you keep track of the numbers. But are the numbers reliable, and actionable? That also remains to be proven.

Basically, value is created when you do something the buyer could not have done easily, and I'm not seeing that.