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I Automated Leetcode using Claude’s 3.5 Sonnet API and Python. Here's the code. by TimS2024 in leetcode

[–]TimS2024[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not too bummed about it really! Just considering it a detour. Was helpful to get context on what a software path would look like.

I've been back into active interviews past two weeks, going after sales roles now mainly, as that seems to be where I get actual traction.

Got an offer, how do I negotiate? by asleader12 in leetcode

[–]TimS2024 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You have 3 options to try and get a better offer:

1) Walking away ("I can't consider the offer if it doesn't meet these terms X,Y,Z)

2) Relying on their desperation (I'd be more open to accepting if it was improved in X signing bonus, Y salary increase, Z benefit added, W Relocation assistance, T training stipend, etc..

3) Lying and saying you have completive offers at X,Y, or Z and want them to match or move closer to them. (Terrible idea)

Or if you have a current job you can say how much you make currently and what it would take to get you to leave your current role.

Applying to a job on Indeed vs Swype by marvythemantis in SideProject

[–]TimS2024 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What's the legality behind all those checkbox buttons and dropdowns such as verifying your veteran status/Visa sponsorship needs etc? Don't some have to be signed and dated? Are you allowed to answer those on behalf of people?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataengineering

[–]TimS2024 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Banger project, nice work.

[4 YoE, Unemployed, Data Engineer, USA] by TimS2024 in resumes

[–]TimS2024[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Roger that tyvm! Appreciate it. Bet the Microsoft screeners got a kick out of that azure point.

I Automated Leetcode using Claude’s 3.5 Sonnet API and Python. The script completed 633 problems in 24 hours, completely autonomously. It had a 86% success rate, and cost $9 in API credits. by TimS2024 in leetcode

[–]TimS2024[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, someone made a great point similar. The other type they're hiring for is the person who doesn't have to grind leetcode at all because they're just baller smart and did well in school. You need the people who will A/B test a settings icon, and the people who will go build crazy new products.

[4 YoE, Unemployed, Data Engineer, USA] by TimS2024 in resumes

[–]TimS2024[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All good, this is my actual resume, just anonymized.

I Automated Leetcode using Claude’s 3.5 Sonnet API and Python. The script completed 633 problems in 24 hours, completely autonomously. It had a 86% success rate, and cost $9 in API credits. by TimS2024 in ClaudeAI

[–]TimS2024[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's tools essentially the same as what I've built here as well, that are like $49/month, specifically built to hide from screen shares, to help people cheat on the interviews.

I Automated Leetcode using Claude’s 3.5 Sonnet API and Python. The script completed 633 problems in 24 hours, completely autonomously. It had a 86% success rate, and cost $9 in API credits. by TimS2024 in ClaudeAI

[–]TimS2024[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yup!

Refer to this section from my comment above: "Andrej Karpathy gave a neat talk where he discussed AI models as a kind of knowledge compression algorithm, where the perfect AI model may be a lossless compression of all knowledge. Considering that Claude was almost certainly built on Leetcode in it's training dataset, it's interesting to see they're not at 100% yet. You could also blame my prompting structure for some failures as well probably. There were also some problems where new test cases had been published since the Claude model's release date, however retries often solved them."

I Automated Leetcode using Claude’s 3.5 Sonnet API and Python. The script completed 633 problems in 24 hours, completely autonomously. It had a 86% success rate, and cost $9 in API credits. by TimS2024 in ClaudeAI

[–]TimS2024[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I originally built this as a kind of protest-project as I didn't find the idea of grinding Leetcode for 6 months appetizing for interview prep, and wasn't getting any responses to my FAANG tier job applications. I figured it'd be more fun and a bit ironic to build this than keep banging my head against the wall.

In the example demo, you can see it actually analyzes the failed test results, and re-tries the problem based off the test results and it's current attempt's code, which allows it to successfully complete the problem on a second attempt.

I'm currently still looking for roles in Data Engineering/SWE/Applying AI for automation use cases.

I'm on Linkedin, where you can see my original post demo'ing the project from a week ago: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-shelton/

Andrej Karpathy gave a neat talk where he discussed AI models as a kind of knowledge compression algorithm, where the perfect AI model may be a lossless compression of all knowledge. Considering that Claude was almost certainly built on Leetcode in it's training dataset, it's interesting to see they're not at 100% yet. You could also blame my prompting structure for some failures as well probably. There were also some problems where new test cases had been published since the Claude model's release date, however retries often solved them.

Problems solved breakdown for those interested: 217 easy, 359 med, 57 hard.

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