31
points
brothrock
Joined 126 karma
- brothrockhow is this spam? it’s posted the same way as any HN post and it’s not soliciting anything.
- preach. Take home assignments are another example. It gives huge bias towards those with free time.
- I think this is better than many current coding interview methods. Assuming you have an agent setup to not give the interviewee the answer directly.
Of course there are times when you need someone extremely skilled at a particular language. But from my experience I would MUCH prefer to see how someone builds out a problem in natural language and have guarantees to its success. I’ve been in too many interviews where candidates trip over syntax, pick the wrong language, or are just not good at memorization and don’t want to look dumb looking things up. I usually prefer paired programming interviews where I cater my assistance to expectations of the position. AI can essentially do that for us.
- This type of coding has been extremely helpful to me in the past few weeks. I’m on parental leave, but also a co-owner of a small company and can’t completely log off.
I can one handed spec out changes, AI does its thing, and then I review and refine it whenever my kid is asleep for 20 minutes. Or if I’m super tired I’m able to explain changes with horrible english and get results. At the same time, I am following a source control and code review process that I’ve used in large teams. I’ve even been leaving comments on PRs where AI contributes and I’m the only dev in the codebase.
I wouldn’t call this vibe coding— however vibe coding could be a subset of this type of work. I think async coding is a good description, but bad because of what it means as a software concept (which is mentioned). Maybe AI-delegation?
- For what it’s worth Salesforce.com is hiring Software Engineers.
https://careers.salesforce.com/en/jobs/jr307625/software-eng...
This was one of the top jobs listed. Of course I have no idea if they are hiring people or not, but it’s at least listed.
- AI has drastically changed how I make decisions about code and how I code in general. I get less bogged down with boilerplate code and issues, which makes me more efficient and allows me to enjoy architecting more. Additionally, I have found it extremely helpful in writing lower-level code from scratch rather than relying on plug-and-play libraries with questionable support. For example, why use a SQLite abstraction library when I can use LLMs to interact directly with the C source code? Sure it’s more lines of code, but I control everything. I wouldn’t have had the time before. This has also been extremely helpful in embedded systems and low-level Bluetooth.
In terms of hiring- I co-own a small consultancy. I just hired a sub to help me while on parental leave with some UI work. AI isn’t going to help my team integrate, deploy, or make informed decision while I’m out.
Side note, with a newborn (sleeping on me at this moment), I can make real meaningful edits to my codebase pretty much on my phone. Then review, test, integrate when I have the time. It’s amazing, but I still feel you have to know what you are doing, and I am selective on what tasks, and how to split them up. I also throw away a lot of generated code, same as I throw away a lot of my first iterations, it’s all part of the process.
I think saying “AI is going X% of my work” is the wrong attitude. I’m still doing work when I use AI, it’s just different. That statement kind of assumes you are blindly shipping robot code, which sounds horrible and zero fun.
- Great question. If it can’t skip lines, I’m out.
- awesome article. Do you know how to access the other articles in the series that are linked (dead) in the first paragraph? Would be great to read if still available.
- N=1 is addressed, see outcome predictions. N=1 comes with caveats, of course, but a study like this, with a proven harmless supplement, should be welcomed and praised.
It is clearly a step forward from what you can watch about theanine on YouTube or TikTok. I consider this a work of citizen science. While it should not be taken for more than it is, it’s a great example of how someone can experiment without a high burden.
- All of raspberry pi’s SDK documentation and data sheets for the pico (rp2040) are amazing. Perfect material to build an embedded engineering course around.
- I am a huge fan. This is an amazing project. An absolute artifact of the Internet, as it should be.
I have lost many hours here, and have shared with many
I’m not worthy.
- If anyone is interested in the history and an accessible, but deep understanding of black holes I highly recommend Kip Thorne’s book “Black Holes and Time Warps” (1994). The first half of this article follows a summary of that book closely.
- You can set this up in accessibility->accessibility shortcut and select color filters. Then in accessibility->Display & Text Size->Color Filters select gray scale. Triple tapping the power button will now toggle gray scale. I use a red tint when in bed.
- Looks like the company’s website is down (https://oceangateexpeditions.com/).
- why do I have to sign into wired to read this?
- Johnny Castaway.
- The phases of the moon and the shadow cast on the moon during a lunar eclipse are not related. The phases of the moon are caused by the position of the moon relative to the Earth and the Sun. Imagine two lines extending from Earth to the Sun and the Moon, if the angle at Earth is 90 degrees, the moon appears half full to the people on the side of the Earth that can see it. If that angle is 180 degrees, it’s full. Zero degrees is a new moon. The reason the phases last all night is because the moon rotates ~27 days, therefore changing its relative position to the sun only slightly in a night.
A lunar eclipse occurs during a full moon and the Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned. causing the Earth to cast a shadow on the Moon. This doesn’t happen every Moon rotation because the Moon’s orbit is slightly off.
- This is awesome guys. Thanks.