nixCraft 🐧A Linux sysadmin tech interview conducted via Google Meet. The job interviewer now says: Take off your headphones, put on speaker, close your eyes, and tell me what an inode is and when you need it.
We have reached this point because candidates are cheating during IT and software engineering interviews using LLMs. This is a new, low tech solution, but I wonder if candidates will find yet another novel way to cheat. The hell we are building makes me wonder if there is a future left in IT. Jobs are supposed to challenge your intellectual limits when you solve problems by building unique solutions, you gain rewards beyond just a salary. Now, it is a race to the bottom
64kb@nixCraft I don't know, I worked on a project that used an LLM for some text analysis so we weren't against using them to help code... BUT: one guy we got in was just terrible, the LLM tells were all over his terrible code which I don't think he understood.
I tend to use it but to get to the place I want: yesterday I wanted to get some custom tags from a word doc, in a project where we can't use many libraries, and python-docx doesn't fully support this.
So I used this to find the solution then iterated, refined, edited out its weirdness, until the code was small and maintainable.
People using it like junior devs used stackoverflow (paste without understanding) are going to have a hard time, but its more work for us to clean up later.
I tend to use it but to get to the place I want: yesterday I wanted to get some custom tags from a word doc, in a project where we can't use many libraries, and python-docx doesn't fully support this.
So I used this to find the solution then iterated, refined, edited out its weirdness, until the code was small and maintainable.
People using it like junior devs used stackoverflow (paste without understanding) are going to have a hard time, but its more work for us to clean up later.