Paul-Craft

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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
I have no idea, but this type of scenario is just one of many, many reasons giving an LLM free access to a browser on the open internet sounds like a terrible idea.
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
Which "LangChain situation" are you talking about? Anything specific, or just everything that's happened in the past year or so?
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
Can you add in the missing words that make this comment make sense, please?
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
Excuse me? Amazon lost more money in one day than most companies have in revenue, from dropped orders. I would say that matters. Believe it or not, the systems we work on do things that matter in the real world.
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
I've tried that. They don't have anything for me.
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
Unfortunately, I have a visual-spatial processing disability. You don't want me near anything mechanical, and I can't do visualization-based tasks because I literally can't visualize. That eliminates most engineering jobs.
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
What would that look like? In my experience, real production codebases tend to have lots of bugs. Most of them never get prioritized, because features matter more than fixing obscure bugs.
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
Are you willing to wake up at 3 AM when that "valuable" AI-written code pages on-call? I agree there is some value in AI tools, but implementation details do matter. People shouldn't be pushing unread code to prod. That&#
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
I actually considered that, myself. The thing is, California is where the jobs are for me. If I move out of California, I may never be able to come back. That could cost me a lot.
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
I don't think anyone mentioned comparing AI error rates to a base rate of zero. What has been mentioned is significant numbers of clinically significant omissions, and outright hallucinations. Blatant fabrications should never happen
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
I thought along those lines as well. The only thing I could come up with that would be semi-viable was medical school, and I"m not sure I'd survive residency. I definitely would never be able to pay back the debt, if I had to ta
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
Huh, weird that you can't reply. I'm tailoring my resume to individual postings a good portion of the time. My "default" resume is by ChatGPT; it's essentially my human-written resume, jazzed up a bit for ATS-frien
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
I'm fine with "not big tech," along with a "not big tech" salary. In fact, I prefer "not big tech." My cost of living is not absurd for the Bay Area. I'd even be willing to take a little less tha
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
Bay Area, 9 YoE primarily backend, US citizen. I'm familiar with AI coding tools. I've done real work on real systems.
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
I mean, I am. How else would I know nobody wants to interview me? :)
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
I'm asking myself the same question for a different reason: nobody will even interview me. I've been out of work for a while. Savings are running out. I apparently don't even know how to look for a job anymore.
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
I can certainly imagine such a world. I don't use Brave because I don't want to support Brendan Eich.
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
The ghost of Milton Friedman speaks!
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by Paul-Craft 5mo ago
I don't know what world you live in where an arbitrary and illegal price increase on essentially everything is "just."
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
No shit. I've made that mistake before, not gonna try it again.
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
I'm speaking to what I know. Sue me.
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
Like I said, that's not the same. It's not comparable in terms of stakes, or expected outputs. You're not addressing the issue.
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
Mental health conditions can be disabilities. Again: are you saying you discriminate against people with disabilities?
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
I'm gonna stop you right here, because I never said any such thing: > We don't. The simple solution is to stop maintaining the illusion that 100% perfect hire is possible.
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
Yes, it is artificial. Everything about a live coding interview is artificial. Code doesn't get written in 1 hour blocks while someone's watching over one's shoulder, all the while asking questions to interrupt one's th
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
> Mentally strong and healthy people who do well when challenged are good hires. So, you discriminate against disabled people?
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
I think that's a good approach. I can write FizzBuzz in 4 different programming styles, in at least 3 different programming languages, and I'd be happy to talk about all 12 permutations of them.
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
> I sit down with juniors and sketch out designs or code for them while talking through the thought process at least once a week, and even when solo coding, I expect everyone produces work that explains itself. For particularly complex&#
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
I don't know about you, but I've never had to live code a PR and explain to my reviewer what I was thinking while writing the code. By "deadlines" I'm referring to the length of the interview. Take home problems t
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by Paul-Craft 1y ago
Interviews are not valid tests of those things due to the stress involved. If you don't understand how not having a job in a place like the US is life or death, you're not the right interviewer.

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