Not everyone is using AI for everything

Post by tayo42 » Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

ozgung wrote: post #194

synergy20 wrote: post #91

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still 10x better than the 'finish this leetcode tweak algorithm in 20 minutes and tell me your thought process along the way, and yes you will never need that skill in the real job but we need find out who had time to cram for the algorithm books in the last few months'

How are the technical interviews these days? Do they still ask Leetcode style questions or is it getting deprecated?

Post by tayo42 » Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

wk_end wrote: post #222

vibe_that_works wrote: post #189

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Often the hiring manager will have the person to be hired somewhere in his report chain. So if a person can't effectively communicate and can't properly respond to a "I only have 2 minutes, shoot", then I am getting a future liability into the company that will slow down all future communications. I much rather prefer someone who needs 3 seconds to triage a question and tell me: "This is X, I know this, here is the s…

I absolutely do want to work with people who want to think jointly about interesting questions for a couple of minutes. Give me your long-winded (thoughtful!) answers. Let me see how you think. Let me see how well I (and others) can think through things with you. That's what the point of an interview is, IMO. And I've been gainfully employed in tech for 15 years now with that attitude, often in environments with othe…

Post by Gigachad » Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

AvAn12 wrote: post #239

I think the gap is because 1. For coding, Claude is amazing - mainly because of its curated skills and because massive amounts of working code has already been carefully labeled over the last decade or so via GitHub. And because with any Turing complete language, there is only so much one can do. But 2. For most other things, LLMs are fairly underwhelming. Research is usually mediocre. Try being rigorous and repeat y…

Post by Gigachad » Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #12

sriram_malhar wrote: post #3

Anyone who does a Google search gets a satisfactory looking answer as the very first entry. I daresay most people don't go beyond that, not even the entries on the first page, let alone go to the next. I argue that this is at the level of everyone for everything.

> Anyone who does a Google search gets a satisfactory looking answer as the very first entry. Google has search results still? I don't use Google much anymore (thanks Kagi), but this is what ends up showing for me, I don't even see any search results anymore: https://i.imgur.com/eHIA2Df.png It seems like it's 50/50 on page reload if the LLM-reply UI expands automatically or not, which covers my entire screen. I guess…

Post by inigyou » Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC

acc_297 wrote: post #110

nutjob2 wrote: post #21

> AI has gotten so good Actually anything that is about 90% great and 10% disastrously wrong is utter crap given the way people want and do use AI models. They are great tools in the right hands and awful in the wrong.

It's funny lately I've been seeing the cursor advertisements all with some premise of regular young person wants to develop an app and the ads really do focus on the simplest of premises: the only ones I've seen in these skits are essentially variants on the "todo app" web app tutorial the tech is pretty good at helping identify simple bugs when they happen and to write short sections of code given very explicit inst…