I don’t get how anyone thinks that spending 100s of hours over and over again on projects that make $0 is a good idea. “Definition of insanity” and all that. You are in denial that you are unemployed, you might as well do something more interesting or enjoyable.
Readit NewsErikAugust commented on I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again indiehackers.com/post/ive... · Posted by u/AlexandrBel
The White House calling somebody "hostile and political". Hmph.
ErikAugust commented on Interview Coder is an invisible AI for technical interviews interviewcoder.co/... · Posted by u/swisspol
I've spent the last decade watching this arms race between interviewers and candidates. Last month I hired a senior dev who couldn't implement a basic database migration when we brought him on but aced our interview problems. Turned out he'd been using tools like this.
The problem isn't the tools - they're inevitable. The problem is that our industry clings to this bizarre ritual where we test for skills that are completely orthogonal to the actual job.
My current team scrapped the algorithmic questions entirely. We now do pair programming on a small feature in our actual codebase, with full access to Google/docs/AI. The only restriction is we watch how they work. This approach has dramatically improved our hit rate on good hires.
What I care about is: Can they reason through a problem? Do they ask good clarifying questions? Can they navigate unfamiliar code? Do they know when to use tools vs when to think?
These "invisible AI" tools aren't destroying technical interviews - they're just exposing how broken they already were.
How did you know he used tools like this one? You sit him down and interrogate him? Or did they own up to it? What was the result? Did you cut them loose?
ErikAugust commented on Interview Coder is an invisible AI for technical interviews interviewcoder.co/... · Posted by u/swisspol
The industry seems so divided on AI right now.
We have interviews where we aren't allowing the use of it (yet interviewees are using stealth AIs to cheat). At the same time, I am also hearing of organizations mandating the use of it, ie: "20% of the code committed needs to be generated". There's probably a set of orgs that exist that do not allow the use of AI in coding interviews, yet practically mandate the use of AI in day-to-day work!
We are at an inflection point I think, but my guess is AI is going to win out soon enough.
ErikAugust commented on Andrej Karpathy on the State of Web Development twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/mg
"Supabase with a Vercel app"
I guess mega geniuses make mistakes too...
ErikAugust commented on Code is the new no code lumberjack.so/p/code-is-t... · Posted by u/danfhernandez
Has there ever been a successful SaaS startup that was built with “no code” methods/tools?
ErikAugust commented on How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill? cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/h... · Posted by u/dwighttk
highly underrated band
(not associated with them, although I do share a name with their frontman)
Ha, awesome name and username.
ErikAugust commented on How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill? cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/h... · Posted by u/dwighttk
> Ten different Eddie Vedders with arms wide open
That line needs to go in a song
"If I was Eddie Vedder
Would you like me any better?
That's it, I quit, I don't
Give a shit"
Local H, "Eddie Vedder", 1996
ErikAugust commented on Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study businessinsider.com/uber-... · Posted by u/wallflower
What people don’t understand is that pay isn’t everything.
Like remote work, people will accept being paid less to enjoy the benefits of flexibility that gig work provides, which ends up being better than getting paid more but being stuck to a rigid routine.
There is also more upward mobility in gig work as you can optimize over time to earn more, which isn’t possible in some jobs.
Believe me, if gig work was so shitty, people wouldn’t be doing it.
There’s also some hacks to reduce individual expenses like sharing a car with someone else who works different hours, etc.
The problem isn’t that gig work is low pay, the real problem is everything has gotten so expensive. Gig work was always going to be low pay.
Could you explain what you mean by upward mobility here? If you mean by working more hours, that’s not a novel way to make more money.
ErikAugust commented on Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study businessinsider.com/uber-... · Posted by u/wallflower
I do not want to defend the gig apps but there is a major benefit, you can make your own schedule and (mostly) work in the geography that you want. That flexibility is extremely valuable to some people.
Sure, make arguably less than minimum wage but do it whenever you want.