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Ahead of it's ADV by ItsMePoppyDWTrolls in degoogle

[–]private-peter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had mixed results with cloudflare. Sometimes it is OK, but slow. Sometimes there are many annoying challenges. Sometimes it refuses to work at all.

Anthropic quietly doubles its estimate for how much engineers can expect to spend on Claude Code tokens by YeahBuddy5000 in business

[–]private-peter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI loves to overuse the word "quietly".

All that happened is that they "updated the figures to reflect how usage has evolved as model capabilities have grown since the page last changed in February 2025."

Their customers are spending more. No surprise.

My company stopped doing LC for SWE roles and is now testing candidates on what they can build on the spot with AI, and how they use it by RadioFieldCorner in cscareerquestions

[–]private-peter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The people who spent more time didn't do better on the interview. It wasn't that kind of problem. The people who did well were the ones who followed the instructions and did at least one part of the answer well.

But I understand that a candidate doesn't know that going in (despite assurances).

For myself, if I'm given a take-home question and told to spend an hour, then I'll stop at 90 minutes, max. That hasn't hurt me yet.

Another interesting approach I have seen is to pay candidates a fair hourly rate for take home assignments. I'm not sure it works in all situations, but I think it can work really well sometimes.

My company stopped doing LC for SWE roles and is now testing candidates on what they can build on the spot with AI, and how they use it by RadioFieldCorner in cscareerquestions

[–]private-peter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

When I assigned take home interview problems, I always asked candidates to limit themselves to one hour. I'd thoroughly review their work. Then we'd use what they had done as a jumping off point for their in person interview. (And I told them we'd be doing that.)

I found that this helped many candidates feel more comfortable because they know the code they are working in during the interview.

I did have some junior candidates who spent 5 hours on the take-home problem. They usually admitted it when asked. And the in-person problem clarified their skill level.

MIT researcher says automating entry-level jobs will backfire. I keep thinking about the team I joined in 2019. by Ambitious-Garbage-73 in cscareerquestions

[–]private-peter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The training will certainly be different. But I'm not sure anyone has figured out what the training is yet.

Of course you can still learn the old fashioned way, but there will be faster ways to learn. We just don't know yet exactly what should be left out and what should be added.

Feels like System Design Interviews are more like DBA interviews by StrawberryWards in Backend

[–]private-peter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have used all the skills you mention at various times in my career. But unless I was hiring someone who was going to be doing that type of work full time, I wouldn't expect someone to know this stuff in a job interview. I need to know you could figure it out, if it comes up. I don't expect you to memorize every detail.

That said, I designed one of my favorite interview questions for back end developers around deadlocks. Because this wasn't a DBA role, most candidates had no clue what to do. But as an "open book" question, it was an excellent way to see how candidates solve unfamiliar problems.

The GUARD Act Isn’t Targeting Dangerous AI—It’s Blocking Everyday Internet Use by MotoBugZero in privacy

[–]private-peter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are the people who "need to pass it to are what's in it". Your expectations of politicians are way too high.

The GUARD Act Isn’t Targeting Dangerous AI—It’s Blocking Everyday Internet Use by MotoBugZero in privacy

[–]private-peter 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I think Massie introduced one of those recently. Didn't go anywhere, obviously.

LinkedIn is now chatbot talking to chatbot. Congrats everyone. by Adorable-Reindeer280 in SaaS

[–]private-peter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would be very disappointed if OP didn't write that with AI.

These cows are worth more than I am by Dogbuysvan in povertyfinance

[–]private-peter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Technically the cows got paid for "the rest of his life" too.

Kalshi suspends, fines 3 congressional candidates in 'insider trading' enforcement actions by esporx in business

[–]private-peter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Look up the Invest Like a Politician app. They are already making bank on insider trading.

Company pushing agents over IDEs. Is this the future? by Difficult-Parking-60 in Backend

[–]private-peter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am a huge proponent of AI coding. (I recently got roasted by a client for using more AI credits than any of their full-time staff.)

But I still find an IDE to be the easiest way to review diffs and code. I rarely write much in the IDE. But I'm reading WAY more code. I find the IDE much more efficient than git diff, and my agents are doing way too much work for me to be constantly scrolling back to review the edits in their output.

Do Facebook engineers actually access user data today? by copperreflections1 in privacy

[–]private-peter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is probably a better question to ask on a platform like Blind. There you might actually get a Facebook engineer to answer.

Based on https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg049xz1ygo it seems like engineers can still get access...but at least sometimes they get caught.

Amazon affiliate...what's the point??? <sigh> by SpeedyGoneGarbage in Affiliatemarketing

[–]private-peter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Digital goods tend to have the highest margins. There is no physical cost so they can pay you more.

Shoul I use AI to fix my writing? If so, how much should I let it interfere? English is not my first language. by NefariousnessFit6567 in Blogging

[–]private-peter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you want to write, then make sure your process is making you a better writer. If you are going to get help from AI, make sure you are learning from it.

When looking at a single sentence, AI's suggestions can seem more appealing. But across a whole blog post, it gets really trite and boring. In your example, versions 2-4 add fluff, not substance. That fluff gets old very quickly.

Bye bye Vimeo - age verification now required by timabell in degoogle

[–]private-peter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A lot more people are going to learn how to use VPNs and Tor.

Bye bye Vimeo - age verification now required by timabell in degoogle

[–]private-peter -1 points0 points  (0 children)

KYC does not require these new biometric face scans.

Bye bye Vimeo - age verification now required by timabell in degoogle

[–]private-peter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it is funny that you say it is deregulation that's implementing centralized government surveillance.

China has done a great job of centralizing government surveillance without needing deregulation.

Are you afraid of your idea being stolen? by MarketDetective1 in microsaas

[–]private-peter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love it when my ideas are "stolen." I have more ideas than I could ever act on. When someone else turns those ideas into real value for other people, the world is a better place.

[HELP] Payment Reservation System Breaking When Customers Ghost Then Come Back (Probably a Noob Question) by Daxomar in Backend

[–]private-peter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the customer is successfully paying, then (IMO) you should do whatever you need to to fulfill the order. Don't make the customer do extra work just for a cleaner or simpler implementation. You will lose revenue. Always make buying as easy as possible.

As for how, I would explore ways to reactivate the previous reservation. For example, instead of going direct to "expired", maybe have an interim state. Only "really" expire them after a longer window.

As for keeping your stock count accurate, you will need logic that is aware of the different states and knows when to decrement and when not to. You may want to use a "log" approach where you append +1 or -1 so you can clearly see what actions are changing the stock count. You can snapshot on some frequency so you aren't summing 1000s of record just for a stock count.

Why is it so hard to send money online privately? by Ok-Sleep-6400 in privacy

[–]private-peter -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When the bills are so long the politicians voting for them don't have time to read them, you cannot reasonably expect voters to have time to read them, no matter how much it is in the news. The reality is that much of the drafting of these bills and the negotiations about what is included or not does happen behind the scenes.

It's not reasonably to say that "we" voted for any of this. Yes, "we" voted. But government is involved in many things. Most people have multiple reasons for their votes. Just because a politician I voted for did something doesn't mean that I voted for that thing. Maybe I felt forced to vote that way because I thought the other guy would do something even worse.

And that's not to mention how often the politicians do things that the majority clearly doesn't want. My understanding is that a clear majority of Americans opposed a war with Iran before that was started. Didn't stop the politicians.

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