NotesSince everyone started using AI, more candidates started clearing the first round with flying colors. The platforms had to recalibrate to let in their target percentage. But they're not measuring the code written by the candidate anymore—they're measuring how well the candidate uses an LLM.
Most developers who can actually write this code try to do it themselves. They get marked lower than peers who used AI and completed it faster.
The result? Hiring teams keep raising the bar arbitrarily, trying to find the candidates who are best at prompt engineering their way through a coding test.Unfurl
Notes"11 years ago I blind-pitched Wired magazine an ill-defined article on Rand. In response, they asked me to write an "interview" with her, where I would come up with all of the questions and then cobble together her answers from things that she had written and said (she died in 1982)."Unfurl
Notes"Note that the knowledge for each level is cumulative; being at level n implies that you also know everything from the levels lower than n. "Unfurl
NotesJust like Troopergate, she counts on morons to just believe without question or follow-up. So tired of the exploitation of fear and willful ignorance. "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in a campaign appearance Sunday, criticized comments about coal technology that Sen. Barack Obama made to The Chronicle editorial board in January, and suggested that the newspaper withheld the information from the public - even though the interview has been posted on the newspaper's Web site since it was given."Unfurl
Notes"last Friday the band showed up promptly at 11am (EDT) and commenced to give what is possibly the worst interview in the history of electronic media."Unfurl
Notes"Alice in Videoland is bringing back the days of vintage music and the fun early days of MTV. We recently had the chance to sit and talk with lead vocalist of Alice in Videoland, Toril Lindqvist."Unfurl
Notes"Thanks to the fine folks at the BBC in Edinburgh, their international relations division in London and KQED's Howard Gelman, we had more than an hour of time to discuss genre, genres and the ties that bind them together for Stross."Unfurl
Hackerrank was broken - but now it's actually harmful — segfaulte
Chris Hardwick Interviewing The Walking Dead Creator Robert Kirkman
Interview: Alice In Videoland (Toril Lindqvist)