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That was REALLY weird to read. In reader mode the comparator in the first conditional was >=. But without reader mode it was just >.
by apothegm 10mo ago
That was REALLY weird to read. In reader mode the comparator in the first conditional was >=. But without reader mode it was just >.
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- koakuma-chan 10mo agoWhat did it say? Their website doesn't load.
- koakuma-chan 10mo agoOh now it works, ok I got it right, I am hired
- ano-ther 10mo agoWas that the trick? When copying the text, it is also >=, which is why an online search or AI tools probably give the wrong answer as the article asserts. If you correct the code then at least Claude gives the right answer.
- amelius 10mo agoApparently they don't want to hire people who don't use reader mode. But then the question is, how do you reach people who filter out the job ads?
- gnabgib 10mo agoOther way around.. if you use reader mode you generate the wrong answer ("tricked" like an LLM). At least, it's wrong according to the author/a former CTO. It also excludes users of Lynx, cURL, possibly people using accessibility tools, those with custom/overriding style sheets.
- llm_nerd 10mo agoWhich is literally the point of the post. They have the = in >= at an opacity of 0 and a font-size of 1, which means it doesn't appear if styles are used properly. And their point is that candidates that copy/paste such trivial code into an AI/interpreter will get -11 because it just sees the >=. Though a gap in their process is that, as you mentioned, various reading modes also remove styles and likewise might see it. Though a reader should filter out opacity:0 content.
- gs17 10mo ago> into an AI solver Not just an "AI solver", a Python interpreter will also do it "wrong". The idea is that it's so simple that anyone qualified should be able to do it in their head, so they get the answer without the equals sign (but IMO a qualified applicant might also know it takes 5 seconds to run it in the repl and it'd be better to be correct than to use the fewest tools, or might be using a screen reader).
- skeledrew 10mo agoI'm one of those hit by the reader mode "bug". I really wouldn't want the mode to give me anything beyond raw text+images, as that can be abused.
- rumplestilts 10mo ago[dead]
- Piraty 10mo agoexactly the reason why you NEVER should copy-paste code from a website into your terminal, even if that has paste protection (https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/ https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/)