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I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by motorest »

fgbarben wrote: post #78
siva7 wrote: post #47

There is some dirty secret i learned in my time as a eng. manager: Working in open source / Being the maintainer of a popular library / Blogging about software: All this things won't give you necessarily a competitive edge but can work against you. It's counterintuitive but sometimes teams are looking for a more low-profile hire.

This is cope and propaganda to discourage people from developing their own brand. Better for the corporation if the workers have no support structure or reputation that might lead them to quit

> This is cope and propaganda to discourage people from developing their own brand.

This is such a US-centric cliche that it even reads as a parody. No, the man isn't keeping you down.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by zamalek »

ArcHound wrote: post #125
mac-mc wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lets make a new license: If you wont hire me, use my library and make over $100m in revenue a year, you must pay a commercial license to use my software equivalent to the total cost (equity grants included) of an average principal engineer or director who manages 50+ people at your company in your highest COL metro, whichever is higher. For OSS work that isn't mostly one author, make it go to the foundation for the O…

I agree with the spirit of this comment, but I worry about the implementation. See the comment of Manly read in this section. Once the threat of payment approaches, you can just switch to a free fork. A single person can't really win a trial against a big, well-funded company.

If the license were copyleft forking would not be a solution.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by r3trohack3r »

riedel wrote: post #144
pentamassiv wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know. I have no comparison but it is common for crates to be released under MIT. I took over the maintainership from the original author so the license was already there. I rewrote pretty much everything so I guess I could try changing the license now but that's not something I wanna think about. I do the work because I see it as payback for all the great open source software I use all the time.

I really like the copyleft idea, however, I think you did nothing wrong, IMHO, because if large corps like an idea, they will rather reimplement it rather than even bothering with ways to conform to AGPL or buy an alternative licence. Particular in the age of AI, all source available code has become pretty much public domain (value is still in maintenance, etc). License have mostly become a compliance/ideology game t…

Copyright is but one pillar of intellectual property law.

I’d like to see an attempt by useful freedom respecting software projects to deploy patents to combat non-free reimplementations.

A GPL license that grants you rights to the backing patent as long as the software you develop with it is also released under the GPL license.

Use the library for closed source software? Copyright violation. Reimplement the software under another license? Patent violation. Create something slightly different and call it the same thing? Trademark violation.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by itsalotoffun »

wiseowise wrote: post #130
itsalotoffun wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly this. No amount of cred, smarts, and genius that ends with "and I'm a bit of dick" will save you from my automatic red-line veto when hiring. I'm far from alone in this.

> will save you from my automatic red-line veto when hiring You're literally a power tripping dick hiding behind "I'm not letting other dicks in" facade.

You've got it backwards friend

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by motorest »

BenGosub wrote: post #49
bkolobara wrote: post #9

> Unfortunately they thanked me for my application but said the team doesn't have the capacity to review additional applications. It seems like they didn't even look at his application.

yeah, as this is so often the case, many times good, relevant applications are missed. I hope that this Hacker News post will get to one of the key people at Anthropic and they change their minds.

> I hope that this Hacker News post will get to one of the key people at Anthropic and they change their minds.

Honest question: what leads you to believe they should change their mind?

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by yard2010 »

bootsmann wrote: post #57
captain_coffee wrote: post #53

Unfortunately, this seems on par with recruitment practices in the summer of 2025. I can almost guarantee that they didn't even read that application / cover letter and auto-magically rejected it. "the team doesn't have the capacity to review additional applications" Zero effort. They probably didn't even realize the relevance of that specific application for that role. Unbelievable, I swear!

Tbf, I'd rather get a "we didn't review your CV" response than a template "we are continuing with other candidates :)" response. It softens the blow considerably and helps me as an applicant better keep track on which variation of the CV is working best because I can just remove this datapoint.

Yes, euphemism is one of the worst diseases of our time. This is gaslighting with fewer steps. It's almost always easier to lie.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by zamalek »

davidgomes wrote: post #50

I wonder if it was geolocation? Anthropic is based in SF, the author seems to be based in Munich, and maybe they're not open to hiring people who aren't based in the US right now? Given the state of US visas right now, this wouldn't shock me.

My company, which is significantly smaller, hires people in multiple countries across the world. You don't need an office to hire (I am sure there so exist countries where you do, but I expect they are the minority).
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