I am being inundated with that too-loud-guitar commercial. It makes me hate him more than I already did. Another fucking billionaire telling me what it's like to be poor.

I'm that old guy in the movie "Dragonslayer". "Oh, it's a _test_ you wont? We don't do tests!" <slams door>

"Given a List of random Integers, remove all duplicates and sort them". List newlist = new ArrayList(new HashSet(originallist)).sort(); "Wait, that's not what I meant..."

Programming tests are dumb. No one writes code well on a timer, without access to documentation, or sufficient domain knowledge. They only serve to make someone feel anxious or stupid, and make the author feel "clever".

Aside from the fact that programming tests are meaningless anyway, an LLM cannot detect when someone is being clever or minimal. So it's just a stupid babysitter that you have to figure out how to fool - and if your test can be fooled, well...

Minimally, you've told me that you're willing to replace human labor (in this case, an initial HR vetting) with a cheap and inaccurate auto-completion system. You've also told me that you're willing to insult your candidate's skillset before you've met them.

I got into the Pixies _because_ of the Beatles.

just realized I’m wearing this so appropriate