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Nothing I hire for requires someone to do the World’s Most Challenging ™ life or death problems under pressure from memory. I think that’s true for the vast maj
by jliptzin 3y ago
Nothing I hire for requires someone to do the World’s Most Challenging ™ life or death problems under pressure from memory. I think that’s true for the vast majority of tech companies. If I need someone to wire up a database to a react interface, or write some cron scripts, or refactor an old nodejs codebase, that is all stuff that chatgpt would be a great tool to use. I don’t care whether they’re doing it from memory or not.
- Terr_ 3y ago> Nothing I hire for requires someone to do the World’s Most Challenging [...] from memory That's a bit of a strawman: I didn't say anything about the ease/difficulty of the role being filled, and I implied rote memorization was not meaningful. To reiterate, interviews should measure good data for choosing between candidates. That's not happening when the given problem is solve-able by an LLM using a human as a proxy, everybody's just burning man-hours of company/applicant time on interview-theater that isn't useful for making a decision. (Well, not unless the hiring goals include "willingness to jump through hoops".)
- jliptzin 3y agoAnd what if every problem the position I am hiring for is solvable by an LLM?