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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 aidenn0 »

mystraline wrote: post #299
foxglacier wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people want others to freely use their software and choose MIT precisely because it's more free than GPL. There's nothing wrong with just making something for free and giving it away if that's what you want. Not everybody has to be chasing money in all their activities. The author said he was proud of this outcome and nervous at how widely his hobby project will be deployed. That sounds like the ambition of many…

> Some people want others to freely use their software and choose MIT precisely because it's more free than GPL. MIT license is absolutely not 'more free' than the GPL. In fact, MIT means you give up effective ownership and control. You lose control and contributions. And what do you get for that loss of control? Exposure. Or, in this and many other cases similar, you get diddly shit. Some company paracitizes your co…

> And until I'm independently wealthy, I too will license AGPL. If you're making money on my stuff, I want a cut. Simple as that.

A. So much for "Not everybody has to be chasing money..." as missing the point

B. What hubris to claim that just because you wrote something it is now "yours" in any meaningful way. The copyright lobby has infected everywhere.

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

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Post by archon810 »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #294
pentamassiv wrote: post #27

Hey, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve

Can you please send me your resume: Andrew@gambit.us

Are you the head of AI at a military contractor? This is probably information you should disclose when asking people to send you their resumes.

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

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

Never mind the application rejection, you'd have hoped that in choosing to base Claude Computer Use on his library that they might have at least reached out to the developer to say thanks, preferably with some token show of appreciation like a few Anthropic shares.

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

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Post by archon810 »

pentamassiv wrote: post #27

Hey, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve

Now that this is trending on Hacker News, surely there will be a happy ending when someone from Anthropic sees this post and hires you with sincerest apologies and everyone lives happily ever after? Can we get a positive story out of this, universe?

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

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Post by thatguy0900 »

pojzon wrote: post #298
motorest wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tbf, I'd rather get a "we didn't review your CV" response than a template "we are continuing with other candidates :)" response. Idk it sounds plausible that OP might just have been late to the party, and applied when the recruitment process was at the final stages.

Its a perpetum mobile. Hiring managers use automation to filter candidates, coz its too many. Candidates see they dont even pass automatic filtering, so they apply with tailored CVs x10. This means even more CVs and more filtering and more CVs and more filtering and more CVs etc etc etc Im curious at which point ppl will understand its counter productive.

Never, because they already know it is but fixing it requires both sides to deescalate in lockstep while individuals on both sides would benefit from not descalating

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

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Post by lawlessone »

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!

It's been like this a few years.

It's bit more AI now and bit less boilerplate rejections.

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

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Post by lawlessone »

zdragnar wrote: post #296
bootsmann wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Unfortunately, "we didn't review your CV" is a great way to get sued in the US if the name of the applicant is in any way potentially indicative of the applicant's gender, race, religion, or any other protected status.

I remember applying for a German company for something and they wanted me to submit a professional photo. For an IT role...

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

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Post by mywittyname »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #235
cnst wrote: post #232

> Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position in the team implementing the secret, unreleased feature of Claude Desktop using enigo. I wrote a cover letter and sent out my application. An automatic reply informed me that they might take some time to respond and that they only notify applicants if they made it to the next round. After a few weeks without an answer, I had assumed they…

>The only exception has been JaneStreet Huh. I guess if you decide to make OCaml your company's primary programming language, you have to take what you can when it comes to devs.

They put an absurd about of effort into their recruiting, so I'm not really surprised. Pretty much every math-related content creator I listen to has advertised for them.

I doubt anyone who works there is "take what we can get" calibre. They want to attract people who casually solve college-level math puzzles for funsies. So I imagine it's the opposite and if you get hired there, you're surrounded by people who are extremely accomplished.

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

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Post by lo_zamoyski »

archon810 wrote: post #304
pentamassiv wrote: post #27

Hey, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve

Now that this is trending on Hacker News, surely there will be a happy ending when someone from Anthropic sees this post and hires you with sincerest apologies and everyone lives happily ever after? Can we get a positive story out of this, universe?

It might have been the motivation behind the post in the first place, though not without risk.

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

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Post by mywittyname »

ArcHound wrote: post #11

I'll say it: why would they pay him if he's already doing the work for free from their PoV? Oh, they ignored him. I am not sure if that puts the company in a better light.

Why wouldn't a company want to hire the fore-most expert in a tool that is critical to the company? They are hiring for someone with that exact expertise.

A competitor could hire the OP instead, get them to work on improving the software for a few years. Giving the competitor a major head start.

Worst-case scenario, the tool they are building doesn't work out and Anthropic has a pretty good developer to put on other projects.

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