I have experience two of these AI "interviews". The absolute dumbest interviews of my career, with the exception of a recruiter sending me to a C++ config manager role when I was a DBA with zero C++ experience.
They follow a script worse than a call center drone, can't clarify their own questions, and respond to hallucinated questions.
For now, they are an immediate candidate side rejection from me.
Currently there is no downside for sociopathic behavior. Employment contracts guarantee they earn if the stock does well. If not they get a golden parachute on the way out.
If those that ran the company were actually responsible for what the company does, then this shit would not happen.
This clickbait reads like a long and twisted version of the old boomer adage "Just walk in there with a firm handshake and ask for a job".
Yes the job market has changed, just like it has for every generation, but plenty of candidates are adapting, but there's only so much an individual can do against the odds.
If the employment statistics are so fucking great, why is this board and others filled with stories from people of all ranges of age experience spending months and hundreds of connection attempts with zero effect.
The author needs to upskill learn and how to write like a professional, or pay for a better LLM. The lack of proper capitalization and sentence structure would make him unemployable with any company or hiring manager I've ever worked with. Including myself when I was a hiring manager.
Not quite as simple as learning it once. SQL evolves like other languages, across vendor implementations.
The ClickHouse and DuckDB dialects for example extend the language with analytic options not found in ANSI SQL, nor T-SQL, Pl/PgSQL, etc. DuckDB QoL enhancements are greatly missed when not available.
My org has a monthly team plan, and because I don't use what I would call unsupervised agents, I rarely come close to exceeding limits. I guess I am one of those "chat only users" that so many articles limit my output. A split terminal with Vim on the left snd Claude on the right has been a great combination. Neanderthalic AI.
Personally I'd consider efficient and economical use of AI to be a key skill for a good developer. Using AI for everything at full throttle would appear to be a crutch. I wonder if this will eventually become a hiring criteria for companies without unlimited budgets (most of them).
Obviously business IP for non-China based companies should be treated carefully, but for personal projects where would the cost savings not be worth a risk?
The mistake is university choosing commencement speakers that are completely out of touch with what students about to enter the workforce need. Unless of course the university itself is choosing speakers based on their contribution to the university bottom line.
Big tech executives, no matter what their previous accomplishments were, eventually become sales people. Their job, as they see it, is to push a narrative that benefits the businesses or industries their wealth is tied too.
Students don't want to hear what billionaires want. They want to hear what will enable them to survive in a newly chaotic job market that seems ever more weighted against job seekers.
> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week?
This is what brought me to Python (1.5)
Working on Windows servers, using the ActiveState Perl Development Kit satisfied the need for a better scripting environment than batch files, but I was a poor Perl programmer, it just never stuck.
Python solved the problem of "What the heck was I trying to do?" when looking at my own 6 month old code. It is still my primary language today.