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If it's a one-off script/program that doesn't require additional "domain knowledge", sure. But what if you need to give as context your whole backend repository because you need to take into account a few business rules? Why give anthropic/openai access to my "secret sauce" (e.g., company private repos)? In that case, it's way better to simply write the code yourself.
I promise OpenAI is not going to steal your “secret sauce”
So far, I'm not using "AI" for anything Still haven't tried it
Based.
At least use AI to know your enemy...
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I guess that's the point though? If their opinion only comes from common popular opinions, then that signal is quite useless to me. In this case though, I'll admit that it would be a negative signal if they never tried it even once and refuse to do so. You can't make a solid opinion on things you never try after all. It would be different if they at least gave it a shot and disliked it.
> In this case though, I'll admit that it would be a negative signal if they never tried it even once and refuse to do so I was arguing that this is a bad question elsewhere but you provided another reason. If a candidate tells you they haven't tried using AI (without saying why), that offers no signal at how well they'll do if you hire them, and you construe it as a negative signal. If you want to know if they would…
And if they can make an argument about why they're more effective without AI, more power to them. So if I were to ask the question directly as you suggest, it would be: Are you more effective than the other person I'm interviewing? - which i guess is the whole point of the interview.
> Heroin Fair point, but I also don't think that trying AI is anywhere close to the level of trying Heroin
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I promise OpenAI is not going to steal your “secret sauce”
Based on...?
In fact - had there ever been a single case in the history of the internet where a service provider of any kind - hosting, storage, email, search, anything - has ever stolen intellectual property or trade secrets from a user and benefitted from it? Has that literally ever happened?
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So there are these things called "text editors"
Hands don't type as fast as machines, no matter what editor you use.
Were people actually typing out the full text of source code before LLMs? Why?
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Remember the context - this is while solving a whiteboard problem. Its bad in the same way asking candidate what their birthstone is - because any answer offer little or no signal about the odds of a candidates success at the company. I'm curious to know why you think asking about AI usage is a good interview question.
If you're going to have people use AI regularly, it's worth asking so that you can get a sense of their interest/willingness, experience level, and training needs. That said, more specific questions are typically more revealing. Personally I'm fond of "If you could give Claude only 1 instruction, what would it be?"
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Hasan Piker's political project polls extremely high (universal healthcare, abortion access, and more), so actually you could understand American voter politics by reading Hasan's comments amusingly enough.
He's also banned from the UK for being a terrorist, so make of that what you will.
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I find it baffling that someone with 21k karma, on > News, posts such a ignorant comment, followed up by someone with 5k karma and a 10 year old account, with an equally "valuable" reply. At least use AI to know your enemy...
On the post-grad job hunt right now - I note that most employers will ask in a technical interview or whiteboard interview "how are you using LLMs?" It's tough to answer because you want to hedge for both an AI enthused employer and an AI hesitant employer with limited information about who they are and how they personally use these products. I've been responding with a sort of long winded answer about how 'there is…
I am really interested how someone can make a 100x of themselves when working. This often means "how are you using claude code", "what is your coding setup", "how do you decide if your agent is going in the right direction or not w/o looking directly at the massive amount of code generated". This is not technical, but it measures how much we would have to teach someone that comes from a non-industry background. Remember that companies have money, universities dont pay for a 200 USD Codex+Claude+Grok+Cursor per employee.
That said, I also had to ask the same stuff to folks from big techs that dont actually are software engineers. How are data scientist leveraging LLMs to automate experiments? Are they using it for something other than data viz? Are they using it for /loop exploration? how trustworthy are the agents right now for this?
Having someone with this grasp nowadays might be very very valuable IMO
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If you're going to have people use AI regularly, it's worth asking so that you can get a sense of their interest/willingness, experience level, and training needs. That said, more specific questions are typically more revealing. Personally I'm fond of "If you could give Claude only 1 instruction, what would it be?"
You're fond of asking candidates an unrealistic hypothetical and you think that's revealing?