Readit Newsjannesan commented on Firefox tab groups are here blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
The thing is: the industry does not need people who are good at (or enjoy) programming, it needs people who are good at (and enjoy) generating value for customers through code.
So the OP was in a bad place without Claude anyways (in industry at least).
This realization is the true bitter one for many engineers.
That’s a good point. I do think there still is some space to focus on just the coding as an engineer, but with AI the space is getting smaller.
this article precisely captures what i have been thinking recently. it’s really demotivating me.
jannesan commented on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI kapwing.com/blog/what-its... · Posted by u/justswim
We get a few thousand fresh grads applying to us each year. It’s practically impossible to interview every one of them. At the same time, any sort of coding assignment we give is easily defeated by AI—so that’s not useful either and there are very few signals there.
What we do instead is send out a test - something like a mental ability test - with hundreds of somewhat randomized questions. Many of these are highly visual in nature, making them hard to copy-paste into an AI for quick answers. The idea is that smarter candidates will solve these questions in just a few seconds - faster than it would take to ask an AI. They do the test for 30 minutes.
It’s not expected that anyone finishes the test. The goal is to generate a distribution of performance, and we simply start interviewing from the top end and make offers every week until we hit our hiring quota. Of course, this means we likely miss out on some great candidates unfortunately.
We bring the selected candidates into our office for a full day of interviews, where we explicitly monitor for any AI usage. The process generally appears to work.
On a different note, things are just getting weird.
As a candidate, this sort of test gives me the worst possible impression of the company.
- 0 effort on your side - very stressful for me - completely unrelated to job - ridiculous definition of someone being “smart”
Actually, I would not even do the test most likely and I bet many others neither.
The iOS app looks great! I like that you also have a Linux app. Going to evaluate Ente over the next week by using it on those 2 platforms.
The pricing seems very reasonable as well and the free tier is good enough for me to give this a serious try.
Question for fellow one-file'ers: what do you on mobile? My problem in the past was that all plain text editor apps on iOS open files at the top, which meant scrolling all the way down every time I opened my notes file.
These days I use NotePlan, but I don't really use enough of its features to justify continuing my subscription (the dev is really great though).