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I pasted in the question I typically ask candidates at $dayjob. It did better than the vast majority of candidates. (It’s a very open ended architectural questi
by ninkendo 4y ago
I pasted in the question I typically ask candidates at $dayjob. It did better than the vast majority of candidates. (It’s a very open ended architectural question that’s specific to the industry I’m in.)
At the end I said “write it in Rust” and it wrote a plausibly good implementation.
I’m not sure I can trust remote interviews any more…
- qzw 4y agoActually it sounds like recruiting just got a lot easier for you!
- abecedarius 4y agoThat's close to answering a question from a bit over a year ago: "in 5 years will there be an AI that's better than 90% of unassisted working programmers at solving new leetcode-type coding interview questions posed in natural language?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29020401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29020401 It didn't get a very welcoming reception -- "highly unlikely", and the tenor of other opinions in those comments then tended the same way. But I was being too conservative. (I thought so at the time but it felt sort of outside an Overton window of reasonable technology opinions.)
- imtringued 4y agoWhat? Leetcode is purely about memorization. Of course a model trained on those solutions will regurgitate them. That how humans do it!
- abecedarius 4y agoyou missed the word 'new'
- naiv 4y agoSame here. It passed the tests for backend / frontend and created perfect unit tests as well.
- xrd 4y agoBut if it's a remote job, won't that same developer do great by just delegating all their tasks to the AI, just like they did in the interview? Crazy stuff.
- astrange 4y agoI asked my usual question and it got the answer wrong, but in a believable way that it could’ve learned on stackoverflow. (Basically it tried to parse HTML with regexes.)