@Migueldeicaza @yuki2501

Nah. It won't make any sense.

It used to be the case that the probability of the languages sought by the text of the listing matching what languages the job actually entailed was a function roughly inversely proportional to the number of recruitment agency rewrites and the desperation of the employer.

In these days of LLM-written job listings, it's going to be a complex function dependent from whether the language model autocompletes the skills requirements with highest probability for C#/.NET, for C++/Python, or for something else such as Java/Scala.

We're going to be pining for the days when recruiters did things like think that COM was a programming language, or that SQL was transferrable to VHDL because they both end in 'L'. (-:

@cstross

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@WeeGem

Given that it is #ChristmasEve, albeit that the original job listing (q.v.) was posted on December the 12th, I would have thought that they could have come up with a more seasonally apt metaphor for a star that designates a goal. (-:

I suspect that #RaymondChen has not been the only one over the years to observe that if one follows a north star one ends up at the North pole, irrespective of the real goal. #Polaris isn't a goal. It's a latitude measuring device. Billions of navigators from history must be rolling in their graves.

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@cstross

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@audreygwinter

You haven't even reached the underlying job listing, yet. (-:

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@cstross

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@yuki2501 @Migueldeicaza

Funny that you should ask. I went to the LinkedIn post, and there's a hyperlink there to the actual job listing on Microsoft's WWW site.

It is patently LLM-written. The 'Responsibilities' section shouts that fact the loudest.

https://careerhub.microsoft.com/careers/job/1970393556639051

Amusingly, for a job that deals in rewriting things in Rust, actual experience with that language is an optional requirement, whereas >= 6 years experience in Python or JavaScript fulfils the mandatory requirement.

Mind you, job listings have been autocompleted using boilerplate, especially by recruitment agencies, for decades.

@cstross

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@cstross

The downside is that that article itself, as noted by Hacker News readers, has many of the hallmarks of being produced by an LLM. Or at least being down at the LinkedIn post level of writing. There's not even a scale on the Y axis of the graph.

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