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Just read up about the issue with AI interviewers and interviewees.
Schools and companies were using AI to interview potential students and employees.
Those reasoned that if AI is a good enough judge of character and intellect, then it must be good enough at expressing both of those things, so then they deep-faked themselves into the perfect applicants.
Assuming that learning institutions act rationally, those must believe that an automated selection process will be a net positive.
Now, learning institutions might want to use AI as a tool to select applicants because it is objectively better than humans at selecting the best humans... or because it is cheaper enough so that the savings more than make up for the lemons that get through the gauntlet. Occam's razor rejects the former in favor of the latter.
The highest ranking learning institutions would hardly lower standards without putting up a fight. If those were just cash-strapped and struggling to cut costs, it would make little sense to cut corners on their most lucrative line of business (application fees).
Thus, the institutions must believe that the interview is just a technicality in their admissions process. So much so that they can literally automate this step and be no worse off.
That's it. Learning institutions either believe that interviews in their admissions processes are so formulaic that those can be automated with no loss; or that their human interviewers are so plastic that machines can do their job just as well.
In both cases pledges could just let chatgpt be interviewed in their place. It would be a net positive for both sides.6 -
Something like 50 of my sweet, sweet plusplus just went poof, gone. Vanished, gone with the wind.
Could be a bunch of salty downvotes, no doubt a limpdick way to try and protest my immaculate logic? That is indeed a possibility. But the most likely explanation is someone nuked himself.
And you know what? Shit, man.
This is giving me flashbacks to when rutee left devRant and I hate it.
btw rutee, Mr Johnny Sins, your location literally inside me: in case you ever read this, I just want to say, you is the kewlest; no contest. Everyone else get fucked. I'm sorry, but you're not rutee. Nothing compares2u or some forbidden bromance shit sang by a bald woman, all night up the ass.
Anyway, where was I?
Ah, yeah. People-check.
So who deleted himself? I'm not seeing anyone missing. The whole gang is here. I think. I mean even ostream's shadowclones are still around.
Hmm. Maybe I did get downvoted?
Or maybe it was just a bunch of rants getting deleted, rather than a full-on nuke?
Huh. Indubitably, this is a case for Willy Tanner.
*REACHES FOR THE CRACKPIPE.*10 -
Not an ad, I swear
AI Pro is now part of the Jetbrains All Products Pack I've been subscribed to since I started my current job 11 years ago.
Although I haven't found tremendous value in AI for coding, it gets a B or B+ for serving the right documentation without having to trudge through Google to find it. And to ignore it would be foolish, so I'm at least going to be acquainted with it.7 -
Asian fried red onions that are dry and crispy potato chip-like snack, organic Italian tomato juice, sardines
I am the olive garden now1 -
It's hilarious how in corporate they try to force you to 'think positively'. You can't say: "I'm having a hard time at work and the people I work with are shit". No, you have to say "This is a challenge and a growth opportunity in a new and unexplored territory". Man, fuck you and get real.
And then all the real thoughts go to the watercooler talk.8 -
the gratitude of not being in your mentor's position of trapped on fixing an unreproducible issue tied to company's KPIs for months3
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Anybody else doing music? I recently dived deep into chords progression and unusual meters, and I thought that would dramatically improve my creativity, but instead if I can understand better what I was already doing, I feel I lost in spontaneity16
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Week : 84 (Year 1 )
How is the weekend going?
What is a fantasy that is insanely hot to you, but you know you could never pull off in reality?
last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/146388737 -
I think I speak for many developers when I say:
One of the most infuriating, frustrating, personal-time-invading burnout situations ever:
When your company decides to be cool and hip and hop on every next new technology, selling its employees as undisputed experts and then expecting them to do all the work! And not wanting to pay education hours, stigmatizing the employees for it! What are we, born perfect?!
Oh, as if it wasn't enough that I have to perfect myself in three required skillsets that are expansive on their own and require years of learning, no! Not enough! Let's become experts in three other skills while we're at it! Hop on the bandwagon, wooh! Let's milk the employee more!
I'm so frustrated at this point I'm starting to make Godzilla noises.
You know what? I'm just going to do what I want. Fucking tired of this tech-chasing. I'm gonna fucking explore what I want.14 -
Video editing is hard af. I shifted from VSDC Free editor to Davinci Resolve now, and its kicking my ass.
That's all.6 -
Why has nobody built an actually GOOD (s)ftp client yet? It's sort of crazy that Filezilla is STILL the first result on google (my AV correctly identified the installer as adware because it has by-default-enabled adware downloads) and then the next is windows-only.
I almost wish there was a nicely made Electron app (or - much better - qt) just so the UI could be fucking acceptable.
Is it time for me to start my next unfinished project??5 -
I never understood the programming language discussion thing. In modern programming, all you do is gluing APIs together, no matter if they're third party or built-in. My JS code is literally 95% fetch() followed by querySelector.
All built-in APIs that do something useful are just linking C++ modules. If you're not doing stupid shit, Python is exactly as fast as C++ or Rust.
The only scenario where speed matters is algos. Guess what? You should write your algos in C and link them to your Node/Python/Go/whatever code. And don't even get me started on reinventing algos. Do you really think you can write an algo in one evening that will be more efficient than what the guy whose PhD thesis it was a part of?
Just because some engine parts require the precision only a million-dollar CNC machine can provide, doesn't matter you have to cut the whole car out of a solid block of high-performance engine block alloy.
Remember kids, sorting array in Python is always faster than sorting array in C, because Python's sort was written by someone else who's smarter than you, went through years of scrutiny and iteration, and doesn't have stupid novice algo complexity errors.
Grow up.20 -
Just spent 5h figuring out why sending a serial command wont trigger in U-Boot. Was literally soldering wires to the boad, decoded the entire line with a scope, used several adapters, downloaded the firmware again and again over serial and USB-dfu and a looking for alternative boards online just to find out cutecom was set to send no LF after a command so U-Boot thought i was still typing something. This is literally the semicolon joke you see splattered over normie coding memes.3
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