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ganxel
@ganxel@oldbytes.space
Musician, enjoyer of snooker, retrocomputing and obscure but beautiful programming languages.
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@fn0rd I was interviewing for Hubspot recently, and spent about 30 mins chatting with the recruiter before she said "ok so there's a code test, then systems design test, then another code test, then of course the AI fluency test, then a hiring manager call..."
I satd "sorry, what's an AI fluency test?"
"Oh, well just a standard test because you need to use AI for everyday coding"
"Aha... do you mean, it's available as a tool for engineers when they see fit, or like they MUST use it X number of times per day?"
"Yes."
"...?"
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ganxel
@ganxel@oldbytes.space
Musician, enjoyer of snooker, retrocomputing and obscure but beautiful programming languages.
oldbytes.space
@macinjosh then you switch back to one of the setup steps which has tmed out waiting for some kind of brower SSO thing and have to restart that, then it's 6pm...
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ganxel
@ganxel@oldbytes.space
Musician, enjoyer of snooker, retrocomputing and obscure but beautiful programming languages.
oldbytes.space
@c64whiz@oldbytes.space That Sneakers clip is so disturbingly prescient...
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ganxel
@ganxel@oldbytes.space
Musician, enjoyer of snooker, retrocomputing and obscure but beautiful programming languages.
oldbytes.space
https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2
I was starting to wonder if I was the only one who felt this way; totally perplexed and disturbed that so many fellow programmers seem to have never had the slightest interest in the craft and art of programming, and saw it merely as an irritating barrier to "generating outputs" at the absolute maximum possible speed.
I guess in retrospect, this should have been apparent earlier, whenever I met pushback from technical management wanting me to produce code more quickly as a way of "taking ownership" rather than asking questions about what we were doing, why we were doing it and whether it was the best way.
But certainly the commercial LLM hype era has made that gulf in purpose and philosophy much, much more obvious.
So the industry is mostly fucked and I'm not sure there's much of it left that I would be compatible with (to the limited extent that I ever was).
Anyway, glad I'm not *uniquely* insane in feeling that loss.
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