仕事を失ったフロントエンドエンジニアが一年半仕事探してたけど首吊ったとかいう話。「AIに仕事取られたなら転職すりゃいいじゃんww」とか簡単に言うな。それマリーアントワネット仕草だから

Never I thought I will see a soulmate writing articles disguised as comments on X 🥰 And even saying outright truth about writing down your thoughts, which is thinking about subject! We don’t “predict” what we are about to write like LLMs are doing it. I don’t have to look at previous text I wrote to produce next word, and I don’t have to slow down with every added token. I simply visualize problem space in my head, components of it. For instance, I imagine myself as an entity with some state, you as a potato (entity with mashed potato inside), speech bubbles around saying “writing is thinking”, and then my subconscious mind pulls in all sorts of words and ideas to describe what I see. And all that process is dynamic, I can steer it however I want, and that context management inside my mind, that ability to search for next word instead of just predicting what should be there is what I call problem solving ability. > Problem solving is pulling up together states and state transitions in a way that creates a desired outcome So my desired outcome for this was to connect with your writing… with even more writing 🔥✍️ Thank you for understanding!

at this level of IQ you need to stop trying to work for others, or be disappointed forever

I worked at Codility but thoughts are my own, not company’s. This cargo cult around automated screening and leetcode should have been dismantled decades ago. HackerRank, Codility, and others are only part of the problem. The root cause is inability to measure problem solving abilities. Leetcode is pattern detection and a tiny bit of composition. That’s why LLMs can oneshot it today. The only way to tell whether a candidate can perform is to talk to them and then give them a task to see how they handle it. The more ambiguous task is the more seniority you can assume. The End. If you dig through my X profile you can find my comment on how to evaluate SWE. Two files: solution and tests, and tests are broken, 3-5 things they have to fix. Watch candidates struggle to debug it ☺️ Last but not least, I have seen many companies do not actually wanna solve hiring problems, they don’t care, they don’t understand how to hire and it shows. They want solution, not understanding. And as you know, you can outsource work, but can’t outsource understanding. When companies finally realize hiring is connecting to people ambitions and goals and their identity and their needs and so on, leetcode becomes just a tool, and they have been thinking it is the “oracle” that can replace their understanding. Teach yourself, teach your boss on what hiring is and let’s forget that hiring is a painful process. Find your dream job and make sure you are hired there. Spend effort to show you deserve it. Mass applications with AI, AI interviews all that bullshit is only gonna increase suffering for everyone. The only scalable approach is proof of work that you did to apply. Spend 2 weeks on a company you want to get in. Make it an app, a demo, a PoC, connect yourself to the company as if you are already working there. And you can see mass apply is not tool you should use. This is not numbers game, never was. It is understanding game. Make company understand you are the best candidate they can afford. How would you do that? Well, you have all tools today. You can do deep research on company. You can read bio about people working there, you can talk to them, you can find connections, find their blogs, read all that, understand if that’s aligned to you or not. It is a lot of work, and if everyone does this then company don’t have to scan through 1000 resumes. And you don’t have to spend time rewriting your resume every single time and waste months on this bullshit. This is all doable. Be this person. If you wanna fix hiring, start from yourself. Show them how it’s done. You can do it. I believe in you.

on AI eroding trust and humanity

its incredible that someone captured this Feeling so early, and with such crystalline clarity

I guess they have chosen to optimize for complexity 🫠 If you haven’t ported Doom to Typescript types you ain’t lived ☺️

That’s the trick. They can’t ☺️ See, you can outsource work all you want. But it won’t get you understanding why that work is even needed. You can generate perfect images. But why? You can create software. But who is gonna use it and why? You can make a logo. But why should they remember you? You can drive in autonomous car. But where are you going? And why? You can outsource anything. Except understanding. Retards with $20 month sub can only serve as a meat proxy to LLM, can be easily replaced with another LLM or even a deterministic script 😌 The moat is not capabilities even. See, I don’t even know how to draw and yet this was my gift to spouse. It is a moment I captured in my head back when we met together, 2015. Do you believe I should have generated this image? Hired people who have better understanding of my relationship to my wife? Used a goddamn $20 sub to outsource my time and effort? Why should I even care? It’s just we were together for 11 years , so what? Can’t some guy from a low cost country draw it for me then, so then I can pass it to her like I cared? Or maybe I should hire a professional and let him get into my brain and understand what exactly I need to display? You can outsource your work. You can’t outsource understanding. Maybe I shoud have recorded my 11 years in video, audio, and poured my thoughts on paper and then fed it all to machine learning algorithm and then asked “hey, how should I draw this, based on your understanding of what I recorded?” But this won’t be today. I am certain of it. 🎤

You Are An Expert Software Engineer

This is how they texture a wall

It’s time to build a camera with human biometrics. I don’t know how hard that would be, but we put a man on the moon and made machines talk, so… feasible?