marifjeren

Unhinged approach to interviewing

The article talks about the coding interview being gone but it is still around. I don't know about the other companies in this post but Stripe still does no-AI hackerrank style interviews for example.

I have an RSS opml of about one thousand blogs that I follow. Actually a majority of them are RSS feeds of people who have posted here in hacker news.

I also like to try to read research papers every now and then. On weekends I'll print one out and sit with a french press and pen and read through it, and it's a nice time. (Today I'm reading "Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all cause mortality" by Aune et. al 2017)

Jobs down, threat of increased interest rates down

> why must this result in less joy

Well I think you answered it:

To become a developer, I disciplined my mind to do impressive and useful things. The resulting feelings were pride and speciality and therefore sometimes joy.

And those feelings are gone now that software engineering has become a low-discipline, low-barrier to entry activity.

Am I immoral or vain for having derived joy from that -- I think is another matter, and one which doesn't resurrect the joy no matter how it's answered

Grateful for this essay. Made me feel seen.

Someone said:

> No one is stopping you from doing what you enjoy.

But that's wrong. LLMs are creating an environment in which some things are no longer enjoyable.

For example there is less joy to be had in learning a programming language in 2026 than there was in 2016, because there is less utility in it now.

Thanks. I missed that.

Name it anything else for god's sake. DocumentDB is already what everybody calls Amazon DocumentDB

The article does not say this.

Interesting. How do chip companies plan such projects? Do they use agile, waterfall, or some other non-software-industry frameworks?

> This is not an argument that prediction is hard, as if a sharper architect escapes it.

I disagree with this. The argument _only works_ if prediction is hard.

Correct.

> I [...] fit a hyperbolic model to each one independently

^ That's your problem right there.

Assuming a hyperbolic model would definitely result in some exuberant predictions but that's no reason to think it's correct.

The blog post contains no justification for that model (besides well it's a "function that hits infinity"). I can model the growth of my bank account the same way but that doesn't make it so. Unfortunately.