Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Golden opportunity to become a reverse centaur! You only need to audit/review 5,600 lines of c++ code ported to rust per hour!
Cyber Yuki@Migueldeicaza Did an AI write that post? At this point we can't be sure of ANYTHING.
JdeBPFunny 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.
Principal Software Engineer (CoreAI) | Microsoft Careers
Drive Strategic Clarity: Leverage data-driven insights and competitive intelligence to inform product direction, identify opportunities, and guide decision-making. Architect for Scale and Sustainability: Design and evolve durable, scalable system architectures that balance long-term maintainability with short-term delivery needs, making thoughtful engineering trade-offs. Foster Engineering Alignment: Build consensus across engineering teams and partner organizations by driving clarity, alignment, and shared ownership of technical direction. Build Foundational Capabilities: Contribute to and lead the development of core platform components and reusable building blocks that accelerate team velocity and product innovation. Champion Customer-Centric Development: Engage directly with customers and product teams to capture feedback, understand demand signals, and refine product messaging—ensuring the voice of the customer shapes product evolution. Operational Excellence: Drive operational excellence with a high bar for data quality, stability, security and privacy. Set high standards for reliability and performance. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 3+ years of experience building low-level systems Rust code. Hands-on experience building, shipping, and supporting software, or software-based services) with coding experience in at least two of C, C++, Java, or C#.
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'. (-:
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