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Did your acquaintance provide "a specific prompt engineering project on LLMs that you’re proud of in your application"? Was that project interesting in a partic
by genezeta 4y ago
Did your acquaintance provide "a specific prompt engineering project on LLMs that you’re proud of in your application"? Was that project interesting in a particularly innovative way?
I mean, I don't really know but an alternative explanation to "CV fishing" can be "idea fishing". You have a startup with something they call a "product", their generic assistant Claude. They've invested in feeding and growing a LLM. But while they claim this assistant can be integrated "anywhere" to solve "multiple tasks", that is all pretty generic. Which means -maybe; again I don't know- they lack actual practical scenarios where the application of a LLM will provide direct and visible benefits. That is, they got something they think can be useful but they still need to find how to make it so, how to provide interesting use cases. And so, they would be interested in getting all these small, experimental ideas to read and think about.
- data_maan 3y agoHm... this would be pretty exploit that companies are using. Also pretty evil - but I can totally see this happening. There should probably be laws that prohibit companies, in particular startups, from making un-remunerated use of any ideas that are submitted in an application process, unless the applicant gets a job offer. Even if in practice this would be very hard to prove... The project involved a new methodology of evaluating LLMs, which I think had impact. Perhaps this indeed got stolen, but we'll never know I think.
- genezeta 3y agoIt doesn't necessarily mean it's evil. I mean, they could hire people to work on the idea they present. I don't know. But, yeah, it's unlikely you'll ever know.