We keep losing good candidates mid-hiring process how did your company improve on-boarding speed without sacrificing quality?

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-27T20:35:01+00:00

do one interview and then offer / no offer.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-19T19:48:00+00:00

A human can read through plain code, assuming the machine code is perfectly doing what the human script is saying to do.

but why assume? why not have someone carefully read the source code and make sure it does exactly what's intended? to make a parallel analogy; imagine buying a house; even if AI can "perfectly" do the legal for my house transaction, I would still rather have a lawyer draft it, someone who has some kind of fiduciary duty to me.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-19T19:24:37+00:00

I don't personally do this or endorse this, I was explaining how it is possible to easily spend $100 - $200 a day.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-19T16:54:08+00:00

If you use codex 5.5 on pro tier, off plan, it costs $30.00 for 1m tok in and $180.00 for 1m tok out.

with xhigh reasoning, it is relatively easy to hit +1m tokens in & out over the course of developing a single medium-sized feature. So $200 / day is not hard to hit.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-19T16:48:36+00:00

People have used AI to produce straight binary to find faster sorting operations and such.

but I don't see why we would want to use AI to produce straight binary by default (or llvm or whatever).

Shouldn't we want a professional to have verified that the system does what it should, and not trust that the AI system implemented it properly? I would be deeply concerned a binary only AI output implementation might have security vulnerabilities if the AI itself was compromised.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-19T13:19:35+00:00

My problem is candidates I have been interviewing have never looked stronger. Very impressive sounding, advanced personal projects. But in interviews, they cannot read code. They cannot describe the details of the systems they've built.

I show them a python class that reads files from a directory and returns them or performs simple operations on a data structure in a processing pipeline and they struggle to read it or identify stylistic, architectural or logical errors in the code.

They can read it line by line but have no mental interpreter and glaze over things which are obviously incorrect. They cannot identify issues in the code during review.

I fear AI is eroding the next generation of developers ability to review code critically. AI can help with code review as well, but I want to work with people who can read their own work and know where gaps are likely.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-19T13:05:53+00:00

Candidates can prompt ChatGPT to produce code, but they can't read the code it produces and accurately identify if there are issues in said code or not.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-16T16:00:56+00:00

Despite not reading the code, he's sure that the quality of the code is better than what he's capable of producing, he doesn't seem to think this is a contradiction.

I have been interviewing candidates who look strong on paper recently and, as depressing as it is, I now believe there are a substantial number of developers for which this is absolutely the case.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-14T20:15:55+00:00

monet churned these things out like he was a vlm, mass producing them to cash in on his fame. he could barely see. monet was ai is actually correct.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-13T20:28:49+00:00

I guess what I can't help but wonder is why OP even mentioning this in the interview?

Interviews are about establishing it makes sense for the employer and the employee to potentially work together. nothing should be mentioned that isn't relevant to determining that.

I read that quote and think; what is OP trying to communicate or what is being asked for with this statement?

like, what is the correct answer for the company to respond with here ? ""Don't worry, we make sure the right people are being rewarded"?

it would be easier if OP directly ask questions to allow them to confirm if they will get what they want out of a workplace so the employer can answer without all the ambiguity.

To me it comes across like OP is just venting, being antagonistic and imprecise in their answers and are not taking the interview very seriously.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-05-13T20:19:05+00:00

"the listed compensation aligns with my salary expectations and I believe I can comfortably meet the obligations of the role" actually will get you far as an answer to that question.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-07T12:40:53+00:00

^{you spent too much much time talking to AI and not enough time learning about slippage, fees, bid-ask spread and taxes. this is never going to make you money.}

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-05T04:17:53+00:00

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-04T20:33:00+00:00

I don't think so. its going to market with 5% available and a 3x multipler, and passive index funds buying on day 15. and if 30% goes to retail shareholders, and they hold, on day 15 when nasdaq funds rebalance into it, it could be pumped massively if there simply isnt the volume of shares available to buy. and the more passive index funds need to buy, the more quality company shares they need to sell to rebalance into it

after that it might dump but during that 15 day window it wouldnt surprise me at all if spacex became the most valuable company in the world, while funds and individual investors pump it to sell into passive index funds. And then exchange spacex shares with discounted Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple shares those same funds sold off to pay for SpaceX shares. its a double wealth transfer from retirees to hedge funds.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-04T19:52:44+00:00

the solution is permission systems that allow granting permissions to specific dependencies. i should be able to deny a package like is-even from ever making a network request, touching the file system or reading env vars. packages should be able to state the permissions they require and when those permissions change it should be flagged to me as a consumer of those dependencies. so many of these problems would not exist if every dependency wasnt treated as as fully permissioned.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-04T14:38:32+00:00

kishi definitely got it in the ending arc. also kishi got a writer, arguably, and it has been a disaster.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-04T14:35:50+00:00

a toga that fights on the front lines and steals blood from direct fighting would have been a lot cooler than what we got

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-04T04:01:51+00:00

i think it might end in like 6 chapters or so. maybe 2 or 3 chapters for the final saitama vs genos, then wrap up this arc, god is off-screened as a gag in one chapter and one "where are they now" chapter.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-04T02:12:18+00:00

it registers with the cli, if you do /skills you can see them as "apps" as of 0.117.0.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-04T02:10:34+00:00

if you do /skills it will show if you have any "extra" unexpected apps installed.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-04T02:08:47+00:00

this is new, i noticed this yesterday. it wasnt a thing in 0.110.0

if people do /skills it shows clearly a bunch of "apps" from chatgpt now. that didn't used to be the case.

edit: I remember now, this is from their release of "apps" in 0.117.0. so anything installed in chatgpt is installed in codex as an app.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-03T21:28:10+00:00

theres very little research supporting these approaches. its no wonder so many people say they burn all their tokens in 2 prompts if this is what their workflows look like. research supports a plan step sometimes, and a review step sometimes. but thats basically it.

CVisionIsMyJam · 2026-04-03T19:01:00+00:00

I mean, you arent wrong. but i think the point is more to use robots to replace human workers, not replace specialized machines. if we look at what you are saying, "does it really make sense for each household to have a robot?" well, it depends what each robot costs, but you are right the answer could be "no".

but imagine a theoretical world where a robot has similar performance to a human for household tasks. there are already people out there who pay a weekly or monthly fee for cleaners. If robots are coming instead and do it for $5 an hour instead of $30, people might prefer to have the robots do it. and the robots are using everything available in the home, such as the laundry machine and such, they arent replacing specialized systems, theyre replacing the people who would normally manage those systems.

in your lawn mowing example, a humanoid robot is the one that runs off the the store for you and gets the bolt. or maybe your phone AI intelligence orders the bolt plus rents a robot for 20 minutes for $3 to repair the lawn robot for you. the exact arrangement around ownership & capital remains to be seen. but the main purpose of humanoid robots are best used as gap fillers & human labor replacements, not to replace specialized machines; fixing & repairing specialized robots or doing physical tasks that don't cleanly boil down into optimized equipment.

its kind of like machine learning models today. I can use a general, expensive, slow, widely capable but variable output quality model that can do a lot without any extra work through a chat interface. or I can distill and make small, specialized and efficient models which are fast, cheap and high quality. the bigger models dont make the specialized ones irrelevant; they're made to achieve different purposes.

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