theyCallMeSwift
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Comment · 7 months ago
I love this idea, but have a hypothesis that 90% of agents that people actually use today would fail this test inadvertently (false negative).
Industry best practice + standard implementation for most agents right now is to do web browsing / fetching via subagents. Their output is summarized using a cheaper model and then passed back to the parent. It's very unlikely that without preserving the actual content the subagents see that the `CANARY-` strings would be found in the output.
Any thoughts on how you'd change the test structure with this in mind?
Comment · 7 months ago
Anyone have thoughts or insights about why Lego is ending the partnership with FIRST? Thirty years is a long enough track record that it doesn't seem like an overnight decision...
Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 5 years ago
Major League Hacking (MLH) | Head of Engineering | Full Time | New York, Seattle, or Remote (US) | https://careers.mlh.io/o/head-of-engineering?soure=Hacker%20...
Major League Hacking (MLH) is rethinking technical education for the modern world. Now that every company is a technology company, we need faster and more effective ways to train the talent that everyone depends on. Our unique hands-on, community-driven approach has helped more than 500,000 technologists worldwide launch their careers and stay up-to-date with the latest trends. If you're passionate about technology, education, and the future of work – this this the place for you!
As our Head of Engineering you’ll be responsible for building out a team of developers who will create and maintain engineering products that help aspiring software engineers level up and launch their careers. The software that you and your team write will power the largest community of early career developers in the world and help redefine the future of work & technical education.
Stack: Ruby on Rails, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Heroku
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Comment · 5 years ago
Major League Hacking (MLH)| VP of Engineering | Full-time | New York / Seattle | Rails & Next.js
Major League Hacking (MLH) is rethinking technical education for the modern world. Now that every company is a technology company, we need faster and more effective ways to train the talent that everyone depends on. Our unique hands-on, community-driven approach has helped more than 500,000 technologists worldwide launch their careers and stay up-to-date with the latest trends. If you're passionate about technology, education, and the future of work – this this the place for you!
As our VP of Engineering you’ll be responsible for building out a team who will create and maintain engineering products that help aspiring software engineers level up and launch their careers. Within your first year, we’ll expect you to have hired a small team of developers and worked with them to create a successful and efficient engineering team. You’ll have added key features to our existing products driven by the needs of our team and feedback from our users.
Comment · 5 years ago
Major League Hacking (MLH) | VP of Engineering | NYC | Full-Time
Major League Hacking (MLH) is rethinking technical education for the modern world. MLH has become the default destination for top tech talent to gain hands-on experience, build their professional networks, and ultimately level up their careers.
As our VP of Engineering you’ll be responsible for building out a team of developers who will create and maintain engineering products that help aspiring software engineers level up and launch their careers. The software that you and your team write will power the largest community of early career developers in the world and help redefine the future of work & technical education.
https://careers.mlh.io/o/vice-president-of-engineering
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Comment · 5 years ago
Major League Hacking (MLH) | VP of Engineering | NYC/Bangalore | Full-time | Rails, Next.js
MLH is rethinking developer education. We've built the largest community of early career developers in the world (8% of US devs are alumni) and now we're helping them launch their careers via engineer apprenticeships. We need your help scaling the technology that makes this all work.
As our VP of Engineering you’ll be responsible for building out a team of developers. Our stack is primarily Ruby on Rails and Next.js. This is a key leadership role in a rapidly growing startup reporting directly to the CEO.
Comment · 6 years ago
Major League Hacking (MLH) | VP of Engineering | NYC/Bangalore | Full-time | Rails, Next.js
MLH is rethinking developer education. We've built the largest community of early career developers in the world (8% of US devs are alumni) and now we're helping them launch their careers via engineer apprenticeships. We need your help scaling the technology that makes this all work.
As our VP of Engineering you’ll be responsible for building out a team of developers. Our stack is primarily Ruby on Rails and Next.js. This is a key leadership role in a rapidly growing startup reporting directly to the CEO.
Comment · 6 years ago
The growth specifically in Post-baccalaureate Certificate program enrollment while general Certificate programs drop is really surprising to me. I wonder if undergrads just have less faith in certificates or if graduates are more worried about CV gaps.
Anyone have thoughts on why this might be happening?
Comment · 6 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
Hey, Swift from Major League Hacking (MLH) here. Thank you so much for submitting. We're humbled by the response we've received so far – more than 200 students already applied within a few hours of launching!
Internships were super impactful for my career. We're excited to find a way to create more opportunities for our community to access these kinds of experiences.
Happy to stick around and answer any questions folks have!
Comment · 8 years ago
Swift from MLH here. Sorry to hear that you feel the hackathon at Rice has changed for the worse. I can definitely understand where you're coming from. Since I got involved in hackathons back in 2010 things have changed a lot!
Having spent plenty of time at non-MLH hackathons, I'd say the phenomenon you're observing is actually a broader trend in hackathons, not something specifically MLH is doing. The truth is, most of the sponsorship money that funds these events comes from recruiters. Hackathons are also a hell of a lot more effective for recruiting than job fairs for many companies. Naturally, a huge influx of people focused on hiring hackers would impact the culture.
It's up to organizations like MLH to help preserve the good parts of hacker culture while enabling it to naturally evolve over time. I like to think we're doing some good work on that front, but there's always room for improvement and feedback like yours drives that!
Thanks for being a part of the community! Feel free to drop me an email if you ever want to chat about your feedback further or share additional ideas.
For 12 years Hacktoberfest was 4x PRs for a t-shirt. That got a lot of people their first merged PR, but it also made October the toughest month of the year to be a maintainer. With the rise of coding agents, making that first PR is no longer the biggest challenge in Open Source anyway, so we decided to refocus the event on what matters now.
Instead, the whole month is about building with "Open AI" (not the company!) like open-weight models, Open Source harnesses, and other freely available agentic tools and skills. Some of what's on the schedule: coding with a local model and no wifi, building an agent harness from scratch, writing+publishing your first skill, and running an open-weight model entirely on an Arduino.
We're live streaming nearly every day and there are already 400+ local in-person "Fests" where you can get together with other builders to participate in Hacktoberfest. Happy hacking!