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Your comments history suggests you’re rather bitter about “nerds” who are likely a few standard deviations smarter than you (Anthropic OG team, Jeff Dean, proof nerds, Linus, …)
And they’re all dumber than John von Neumann, who cares?
If the models get a good feedback loop + easy (cheap) verification, they get to bang their tokens against the wall until they find a better solution.
It shocks me that anyone supposedly good enough for anthropic would subject themselves to such a one sided waste of time.
I generally have a policy of "over 4 hours and I charge for my time." I did this in the 4-hour window, and it was a lot of fun. Much better than many other take-home assignments.
Anyone worth working with respected that and I landed several clients who forwent the assignment altogether. It's chump change in the grand scheme of things, and often a formality.
Does help that I have a very public web presence and portfolio, though.
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And they’re all dumber than John von Neumann, who cares?
Transitively, you haven't thought the most thoughts or cared the most about anything, therefore we should disregard what you think and care about?
The snarky writing of "if you beat our best solution, send us an email and MAYBE we think about interviewing you" is really something, innit?
The snarky writing of "if you beat our best solution, send us an email and MAYBE we think about interviewing you" is really something, innit?
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Think that means you failed :(
+1 being cryptic and poorly specified is part of the assignment just like real code in fact, it's _still_ better documented an self contained than most of the problems you'd usually encounter in the wild. pulling on a thread to end up with a clear picture of what needs to be accomplished is like 90% of the job very often.
Basically it's a long enough problem that I'd be annoyed at being asked to do it at home for free, if what I wanted from that was a shot at an interview. If I had time on my hands though, it's something I could see trying for fun.
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I generally have a policy of "over 4 hours and I charge for my time." I did this in the 4-hour window, and it was a lot of fun. Much better than many other take-home assignments.
I don't do take home assignments, but when I did, I would offer to do it at my hourly rate, even if it was just an hour. It's time I would otherwise spend making money. Anyone worth working with respected that and I landed several clients who forwent the assignment altogether. It's chump change in the grand scheme of things, and often a formality. Does help that I have a very public web presence and portfolio, though…
Was the screening format here that this problem was sent out, and candidates had to reply with a solution within 2 hours?
Or, are they just saying that the latest frontier coding models do better in 2 hours than human candidates have done in the past in multiple days?