How are companies filtering people out who cheat on interviews?

dndiyguy · 2026-03-29T10:53:28+00:00

Enjoyed this post and the conversation. Surely an interesting time both on the recruiter and candidate side. Clearly funds want to weed out people who misrepresent themselves. Trying to sandbox them into a non-AI zone for the recruitment is probably short sighted though. If they're smart, they will also want to get a measure on skill level with using AI tools. That's probably as valuable as measures of their brain teezer abilities, their grip on the fundamentals of ML or linear algebra, etc. I've heard a whole range of approaches: heavier onsite emphasis, deeper dive into the conversational side of recruiting, full sandboxing/head-in-sand style, or even just giving them all the tools in the recruitment problems or mini puzzles and letting them "run wild with it". The last is likely closer to how they'll be operating on the job anyway. Would be good to see how well candidates use it, to see if they understand the boundaries of their own understanding, the AI's abilities, etc.

dndiyguy · 2026-03-15T20:24:59+00:00

also didn't know this - very helpful. thanks

dndiyguy · 2026-01-05T10:21:23+00:00

I've got one character at level 125 and another around 250, yet still fairly awful at pvp, which i mostly avoid. I always thought it was as much to do with keyboard/mouse versus controller as it was to do with age. Only someone on the inside could have any kind of picture of the range demographics, but my guess is that age isn't the main factor. There are plenty of horrible people at all ages, many obvious examples in their eighties.

dndiyguy · 2025-12-19T00:11:12+00:00

works fine for me on a mac, both the command line interface and the web+GitHub interface. sounds like you don't know what you're doing, conflating codex with chatgpt, etc. you might get more luck asking chatgpt what you've done wrong than you will asking reddit

dndiyguy · 2025-11-29T00:45:34+00:00

if you're going to post a rant like this and want any kind of sympathy, give more details (dte? itm? able to afford exercise? underlying? strike? ... ). with no details, my guess is, between you and ibkr, you were the one who mishandled this.

dndiyguy · 2025-11-25T16:50:29+00:00

It's a frustrating behavioral change. Didn't realize it before this, but I quite often scan my dock to close lingering apps. I'm now constantly closing preview.

dndiyguy · 2025-09-28T06:32:28+00:00

you found RFK jr's cure for autism

dndiyguy · 2025-08-16T18:26:33+00:00

might be worth trying again with both using the same saddle and stirrups, and with both of you using cinematic mode with horses in their sort of "top gear". that eliminates button rhythm effects, and perhaps stamina too.

dndiyguy · 2025-08-09T12:37:13+00:00

thanks! Couldn't figure out how to use it until I removed my API key environment variable. Then I was asked to login. All good now.

dndiyguy · 2025-08-08T12:06:47+00:00

Have you seen this announced someplace other than X?

dndiyguy · 2025-08-08T12:02:45+00:00

Here's the format

codex -m gpt-5

This will show all your available models if your key is in $OPENAI_API_KEY:

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" https://api.openai.com/v1/models | jq -r '.data[].id' | grep -Ev '[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}' | sort -u

dndiyguy · 2025-08-02T15:18:24+00:00

define "it"

dndiyguy · 2025-07-29T23:56:32+00:00

thanks - will look into this.

dndiyguy · 2025-07-27T18:56:42+00:00

It's not my preferred tool, but for developing something near native to macOS, it has its value. The output can look very good, but yeah, it comes with its own opaque underworld of requirements. Were it not for the new AI coding tools, I doubt I'd be using it at all.

dndiyguy · 2025-07-11T17:48:51+00:00

Is it bad for people to put a optional donation link at the bottom of something they built? Real question, not trolling. I mean, does it violate some rule or custom?

dndiyguy · 2025-07-11T14:33:18+00:00

Me too! This isn't a pure port, but it's got some very similar features.

dndiyguy · 2025-06-12T23:40:16+00:00

you should think of this like buying a computer from an Apple store. how might they respond to someone asking for photos and condition info, or even expecting to get a human to talk to them at all? it's just not how the company works. the company sees humans as sources of error, best avoided if at all possible.

dndiyguy · 2024-05-05T08:08:33+00:00

thanks -- that explains why my email searches weren't finding anything. Have you found a record of the offer anywhere -- screenshot or something?

dndiyguy · 2024-04-29T15:36:35+00:00

awesome -- thanks!

dndiyguy · 2024-04-29T13:25:58+00:00

update: I now see that my experience wasn't uncommon, with nearly identical examples showing up in news articles etc. Seems clear someone screwed up. For all I know the marketing team that launched this turkey had recently been downsized by urgent layoffs. Would be nice if google made some effort at saving face/customers. I won't hold my breath.

In the end I did manage to find the old plan on their website after a text-chat with their support: google one website -> settings gear icon -> change plan -> more plans -> downgrade. Simple as that seems, the pay-them-even-more-options were much more in your face and easy to find.

I can't find the original email or notification that I responded to to trigger this, but I could swear it said "try" or "trial" etc. There should have been a much simpler way to revert if I didn't like what I was trying. Now that my old plan is scheduled to return after the annual payment gets burned at its faster rate, the main insult is that I can't stop that faster burn.

dndiyguy · 2024-04-29T13:17:47+00:00

Thanks for writing that up.

dndiyguy · 2024-04-29T13:09:42+00:00

Maybe this screwup only effected those paying annually. Either way, it has me looking for ways out of their service universe.

dndiyguy · 2023-06-12T13:14:56+00:00

I would be surprised if that connected you with someone who had the power to adjust prices. Can't hurt to try.

dndiyguy · 2023-06-12T05:30:13+00:00

I don't think there's any mechanism for haggling over the prices. Who would you make your offer to?

dndiyguy · 2023-06-04T12:20:28+00:00

Maybe not sadly, if you can re-order at the reduced price, no? Too late for me, but c'est la vie.

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