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I like this - a huge part of our engineering work is ETL pipelines so giving them some data to process makes things a lot harder to fake.

This screen is after the "walk us through your resume, explain what you've built" conversation, where we ask them about specific challenges, decisions they made, etc. Everyone who …

Contribution to OS projects would allow us to bypass this screen altogether, but great point. Haha we might have to switch to Rust just to ease our interviewing woes here - we're p…

Having the GPT answer beforehand would allow us to confront them about it sooner, but at that point we're definitely not hiring them since they thought it a good idea to use an LLM…

This is an interesting direction - especially benchmarking against GPT and telling the candidate we are. Do you have any suggestions about the type of questions we could be asking …

I disagree with the carpenter-hammer analogy here pretty strongly. We're basically trying to figure out if they can code generally, or if somehow they've skated by in their last po…

Not really, since failing FizzBuzz basically ends the interview. That said, Pascal's and Non-Primes allows us to do a few minutes of basic, "that looks great, what are some ideas f…

Great point on the Sieve - knowing it off of the top of his head wasn't itself a red-handed indicator of cheating, but claiming that he'd used it in a B2B SaaS app was. Especially …

The screen we are performing here is a basic "can you program" type of evaluation. We've run into a number of people with seemingly-decent resumes (several positions as engineers a…

This is generally what we do and what raised our suspicions in the first place - they both could "walk us through" their code, but had trouble explaining why they did certain thing…

We're definitely not doing any "Leetcode style" interviews over here - these are basic "can you perform basic programming tasks as you've stated" type questions.

Yesterday, we did two basic-screen technical interviews where both candidates appeared to use LLMs to generate nearly their entire answers. We do this quick screen after a 30-min b…

How do you reconcile recent extreme weather and weather events with your apparent view that most climate reporting is fake? Or that recent years have all been the hottest in modern…

They probably should've called the game a bit earlier - or at least significantly cut things back

Yes I found this out the hard way just last week - thought I was being pretty clever with my inside-the-box packing label.

This is very cool. I like how simple it is, and I think this is a nice first step towards making LLMs long-term useful for the layperson.

This does exactly the opposite of that. Reading the text of the bill, every part of it, especially Section (B), is couched in the principle of "not interfering." For Example: "A PE…

I think that one major issue here is that while you and I likely have the time and other resources to go fight something like this if it were to occur, many of the people for whom …

I've been (lightly) thinking about this with regard to digital identity. One of the few use cases that I find very compelling with regard to blockchain/web3 tech is as a means of I…

I think the argument is less that the grill on a truck is especially bad in the case of a pedestrian collision, and more that the limited forward visibility provided by a high fron…

There are a huge number of more focused + results-oriented boutique consultancies out there. I run a very small and technically-focused automation consulting firm, and have a numbe…

We're in the same boat - fortunately we're a small company so it's not going to be brutal to switch if we have to, but we're huge fans of the privacy and encryption features and it…

To be fair, all of the Enron shorts lost their shirts until they didn't. I'm not saying that TSLA is an Enron, but using performance thus far as an indicator of likely performance …

You worked on a project like this? Sounds interesting! Are you able to tell us more, or if it was ever implemented?

Thanks for the advice! Unfortunately, the apartment complex has an exclusivity agreement with CenturyLink. Cox and others have expressed willingness to pull cable into my unit, but…