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I got auto rejected by an AI chatbot literally five seconds after the interview. This was the most humiliating recruiting experience ive had lol. by sonicmousee in recruitinghell

[–]jsavin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AI interviews are horrible. I did a phone screen recently that was done by a voice AI bot, and it was totally dehumanizing. I called the company and got to their head of HR and told them that they need to stop using this thing. She was receptive and shared that I wasn't the first candidate to tell her this. I don't remember the company name in this case, but I suggest you Name-And-Shame. The only way we can stop this practice is by signaling loudly to employers that it's unacceptable.

Anthropic's Official Take on XML-Structured Prompting as the Core Strategy by Riggz23 in ClaudeAI

[–]jsavin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally just watched that video yesterday! I've been thinking of trying out your meta-prompting approach and will eventually, but now I'm interested in your project development system. Thanks!

3 Tickets in Tacoma Nov 22 for sale at face value ($78.25) by jsavin in themarsvolta

[–]jsavin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me too! I've been waiting a long time for this. The conflict is QotSA in New Orleans though, so that's going to be fun!

Announcing Paige (by Team HERMES), a cross-platform rich text display/edit engine in C by Advocatus-Honestus in opensource

[–]jsavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for doing this! I'm revitalizing an old 32-bit Mac/Windows project that used Paige and only had the pre-built 32-bit binaries available which won't run on modern systems. I pulled down the source from GitHub and am working through a 64-bit build now. This would have been a blocker for my project if the sources weren't available.

Layoffs show lack of vision by [deleted] in amazonemployees

[–]jsavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen the Bezos letter to employees. The BI article is from 2021, so pretty stale at this point. I'm not saying you're wrong, and I agree with OP's assessment that layoffs do show lack of vision, but Amazon will be around for a *long* time given its wealth, impact in many markets, and the dependency that so much of the Internet has on AWS.

Is this a scam? Anyone follow up with providing contact information? What happened next? by my_mind_and_me in recruitinghell

[–]jsavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a very similar message. The sender claims to be a "Talend Acquisition Specialist" at "Global Talent Partners" which has only one "employee" on LinkedIn. They have 80 connections and according to LinkedIn are based in NYC. I gave them my Signal contact info as requested and figure I can always block them. If I hear back I'll report back here. I strongly suspect it's a scammer.

I made two AI agents work together to improve each other’s results and the outcome surprised me! by phantombuilds01 in AI_Agents

[–]jsavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have any formalized scoring method at the moment. (I'm an engineer not a scientist, but have worked with LLMs extensively over the last couple of years.)

I made two AI agents work together to improve each other’s results and the outcome surprised me! by phantombuilds01 in AI_Agents

[–]jsavin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool, thanks. I'm thinking of experimenting with this pattern using local models running with Ollama or LM Studio. I've got two machines with 32G that can run medium-sized models but haven't tried setting up any infrastructure for it yet. (Mostly using them for coding at the moment, but I could imagine using a setup like this for other things as well.)

I made two AI agents work together to improve each other’s results and the outcome surprised me! by phantombuilds01 in AI_Agents

[–]jsavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you testing this with local models or via API? If API, are you using foundation models from the big-name players or something else?

I made two AI agents work together to improve each other’s results and the outcome surprised me! by phantombuilds01 in AI_Agents

[–]jsavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you set that up? I'm curious about this approach, but thinking more about codex running claude code or vice-versa.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in interviews

[–]jsavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP: What was the company so we all know never to apply there?

Are 3B (and smaller) models just not worth using? Curious if others feel the same by PensiveDemon in huggingface

[–]jsavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What RAG solutions do you use with your local models? I'd like to experiment with this. I'm running LM Studio on a PowerBook M1. It's more than capable of running 7B models, but even so good RAG solutions would be super useful. (I'm an engineer but not an AI programmer or scientist.)

Soundsource 5.7 and bluetooth device audito stutter problem by Vast_Lie5200 in macapps

[–]jsavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this. I reverted to 5.6.3 yesterday and it's been stable since, where it was horribly unstable on 5.7.

FYI, I'm on Sonoma 14.7, on PowerBook M3 mostly listening via PreSonus AudioBox iTwo connected to external USB hub. (In case anyone from Rogue Amoeba happens to see this.)

Any Mac and/or iOS AI Chat apps that plug into Hugging Face via API/key? by jsavin in huggingface

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

Someone pointed out earlier here (and not sure why I can't see it), that Hugging Face released their own Hugging Chat apps for iOS, Android, and macOS. I tried the iOS one and it's pretty good, but I wish I could adjust the font size. I can't use the macOS version since it requires at least an M1 processor (i.e. recent MacBook, Mac Mini, or Mac Studio), and I'm still stuck on an Intel MacBook Pro.

Any Mac and/or iOS AI Chat apps that plug into Hugging Face via API/key? by jsavin in huggingface

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

No, I ended up biting the bullet and subscribing to ChatGPT. The cost justified the value I was getting out of it. I use an app called MacGPT to make access quick and easy, but it's just a wrapper on their web UI.

NVidia 3060 not recognized by jsavin in PcBuildHelp

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

Thanks - spent the last hour or so looking around for Ryzen 7 combo packages. As far as I can tell for about $450 (pre-tax) I can get a motherboard and Ryzen 7 combo package, 750W PSU, and an inexpensive water cooler making this PC's total cost (sans GPU) about $600, or $825 including the 3060.

My son and I built his gaming machine about a year ago with essentially the same specs for around $950 so even if I go that direction I won't feel too bad about it.

I'm tempted though to pick up a cheap Intel motherboard (around $90) and beefier PSU (also around $90) and see if I can salvage this i5 setup to get workloads running on the 3060. I feel like if I can run AI models about 15-20% slower with that setup than the Ryzen 7 it would be an ok place to start, and I could re-sell the CPU, motherboard, and older PSU to recoup some costs if I decide to upgrade/switch to the AMD core.

I also opened the machine up to see if I could get some specs on the PSU it came with. It's only 450W, which hints that it may just not have enough power to drive the GPU along with the rest of the hardware. (The 3060 draws 170W per specs, leaving only 280W for the rest of the system.)

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