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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 nextaccountic »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #224
riedel wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Copyright mostly protects big corps nowadays. That's because you need lawyers to enforce copyright, and if the other side has more money the battle may not be worth it.

On the other hand, Meta was found torrenting terabytes of books and for them it's a nothingburger. The rules are really meant for commoners.

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

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Post by ako »

zdragnar wrote: post #338
ako wrote: post #312

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And we now see a lot of proof that that is warranted: lots of people in the US are now openly racist and/or have other prejudices. It is fair to assume many people don’t get a fair chance because of this.

The first company I worked for (a smallish business) interviewed a guy who seemed normal and knowledgeable enough in the screener call. At the time, they just asked that people being in code samples to discuss in the second interview (this predated GitHub) and he brought in some obviously copy-pasted code that didn't fit together. He then, without prompt, in the middle of a conversation mentioned that he was the seco…

Of course you're right, there will always be people that try to abuse the system. But the bigger picture here is that more people are truly being discriminated for their color, religion, sex, etc, than there are people abusing the system. A system that improves live for many should not be removed because some people try to abuse it.

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

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Post by rasz »

notahacker wrote: post #146
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 the other summer recruitment practice in AI this summer is Zuck running round offering engineers with some sort of reputation $100m+ windfalls, so maybe all the OP needs to do is add "author of computer interaction library used by Anthropic" to his LinkedIn profile to acquire that garage full of Ferraris

'used' sounds weak, "Build technology powering Anthropic Claude Desktop".

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

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Post by nathan_douglas »

joelfried wrote: post #325
pentamassiv wrote: post #91

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I don't think so. They use an outdated version straight from crates.io (at least in the publicly available version of Claude Desktop).

Seems like it's time to remove links to outdated versions. Replace them with your resume?

I believe crates doesn't really allow that, partially so that people can't easily sabotage the supply chain like that :)

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

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Post by lesser-shadow »

motorest wrote: post #211
lesser-shadow wrote: post #135

Also I low how the IT hiring has a become a paradox: Companies won't hire you if you don't have enough projects in your portfolio, but by the time you will have enough stars on your github projects they have already used you to their own goals and are "not interested".

I think you are making up scenarios in your head to try to rationalize away why you have a bad time at job interviews.

HR hands typed this post

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

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Post by pizzathyme »

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…

In my 6 jobs in my career from college internship to startups to Big Tech, I have never gotten a job from sending an application into a site. It's always been through (somehow) tracking down a person to speak to and get a referral.

I would recommend that here. There's no reason why Anthropic couldn't use your talents! See if you can find a friend-of-a-friend who is there, and then do a phonecall with them.

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

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Post by jrockway »

lo_zamoyski wrote: post #309
archon810 wrote: post #304

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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.

What's the risk? The current state is "your application has been thrown into a fire and will never be seen by human eyes". How can it get worse than that? There is no downside to complaining on HN, except for getting the reputation that you really wanted to work there, which, again, isn't that negative of a thing.

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

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Post by jrockway »

andrepd wrote: post #182
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

I'm disappointed about your resigned, almost subservient tone. This company is profiting immensely off of your work, and they don't even give you the courtesy of a job interview? ~~Have you considered a copyleft licence like LGPL?~~ Answered in a sibling comment

You have to think about other users as well. One person taking advantage of you doesn't mean you have to cut off all the people not taking advantage of you.

Expecting a reward from open source software is a recipe for disappointment. I have contributed code to projects by companies that say I'm a mentally-ill household object. I'm not going to change the license of my open source projects to get back at them, because the collateral damage against entities that aren't evil simply isn't worth it. (It's also somewhat unlikely that the people working on NTP servers at Facebook wrote those policies, so...)

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

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Post by nomel »

zoky wrote: post #268
andrepd wrote: post #182

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I'm disappointed about your resigned, almost subservient tone. This company is profiting immensely off of your work, and they don't even give you the courtesy of a job interview? ~~Have you considered a copyleft licence like LGPL?~~ Answered in a sibling comment

> This company is profiting immensely off of your work I wouldn’t say that’s exactly the case. Not to denigrate the author or anything, but this library is a relatively minor part of what Anthropic is doing. It’s a UI manipulation library, specifically one that simulates keyboard and mouse inputs. While something like that is certainly necessary for the project in question, it’s not anything that couldn’t be rewritte…

> it’s not anything that couldn’t be rewritten in-house without too much difficulty

This is my experience, at every group I’ve been in. Extending the date a bit is much easier than involving legal for approving a new library.

The group I’m in now sunk a substantial amount of money into a lawsuit for a library that accidentally made its way in, so are now “No LGPL.” with some crazy loops and approvals required if there’s really no alternative (very rare). From their perspective, it’s cheaper and safer to rewrite than not be in compliance, unintentionally or not.

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