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I know this is anecdotal but after almost 2 years of no activity, I have been absolutely hounded by recruiters for nearly a month. They show up in my LinkedIn f

by sakopov 5mo ago

I know this is anecdotal but after almost 2 years of no activity, I have been absolutely hounded by recruiters for nearly a month. They show up in my LinkedIn feed and I get multiple emails a week asking to interview. What in the world changed? It doesn't look like the job market's improved much. In fact I see more layoffs than ever before.

jesse_dot_id 5mo ago
LLMs need a competent engineer to create code that doesn't suck. Reality is catching up to the hype.
- wg0 5mo ago
  Absolutely true. LLMs need a really experienced engineer that has great intuition about the system design. Otherwise good luck getting things done in a business environment where people and processes depend on the software you produce. Thugs of AI thought reality won't catch up to them they're untouchables.
  - ygrr 5mo ago
    And it takes years of doing it the ‘old way’ to build intuition. Many firms are implicitly assuming the models will keep improving to the point where all these problems go away. But what if they don’t?
ai_slop_hater 5mo ago
How many years of professional experience do you have?
nacozarina 5mo ago
Same, and it has been enormously satisfying telling ppl pitching low-grade offers and multiple interview rounds to get rekt.
jedberg 5mo ago
I have an alternate explanation. With the rise of AI recruiters, there is no cost to them to contact you. They don't even have to do the search and compose the message. They're basically reaching out to everyone. At first I found the AI recruiters impressive, because they tricked me. I thought the recruiter had really done their homework and read my profile deeply! Now I know that an AI is reading it, picking random things to highlight, and then composing a message. But they're not real. They're just trying to connect to you so that they can say you are in their network when they go to sell their services to hiring managers.

by sakopov 5mo ago

jesse_dot_id 5mo ago

LLMs need a competent engineer to create code that doesn't suck. Reality is catching up to the hype.

wg0 5mo ago
Absolutely true. LLMs need a really experienced engineer that has great intuition about the system design. Otherwise good luck getting things done in a business environment where people and processes depend on the software you produce. Thugs of AI thought reality won't catch up to them they're untouchables.
- ygrr 5mo ago
  And it takes years of doing it the ‘old way’ to build intuition. Many firms are implicitly assuming the models will keep improving to the point where all these problems go away. But what if they don’t?

ai_slop_hater 5mo ago

How many years of professional experience do you have?

nacozarina 5mo ago

Same, and it has been enormously satisfying telling ppl pitching low-grade offers and multiple interview rounds to get rekt.

jedberg 5mo ago

I have an alternate explanation. With the rise of AI recruiters, there is no cost to them to contact you. They don't even have to do the search and compose the message. They're basically reaching out to everyone. At first I found the AI recruiters impressive, because they tricked me. I thought the recruiter had really done their homework and read my profile deeply! Now I know that an AI is reading it, picking random things to highlight, and then composing a message. But they're not real. They're just trying to connect to you so that they can say you are in their network when they go to sell their services to hiring managers.