I’m a 40-year software dev. Looks like we’re having two different arguments. I approached the “no AI” rule as a prohibition against using AI to pass a software dev competency test, not to write a cover letter. I haven’t used AI myself in coding, but several of my colleagues - also with decades experience - use it routinely, and according to them it’s very helpful. Since a software dev for an AI company would presumably be writing code, is it a stretch to assume AI coding tools would be used in that work? Incidentally, although I’ve never worked on an AI project I’ve been reading about AI and expert systems since the late 1980s, but that doesn’t seem relevant to the discussion. Anyway, there’s no need for condescension or insults - they never really make a point except about the speaker.

Well said! Many companies have the attitude, “You’re lucky we let you have this job, and we can take it away any time!” And many employees totally believe it, no matter how talented they are. But you can’t live other people’s lives for them. After switching to contract work my only regret was that occasionally there were people I wished I could have worked with longer. But that’s life.

I actually took a google screening test around 2010, and they did call me back to go to the next step, which was kind of an ego boost. Other things came up and I never followed through, so no idea if they would have hired me or not. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Yeah it’s memes. That doesn’t clarify whether people are really thinking the status of liberty was a “confusing plot hole” or making fun of that.

True dat. Also, no plan will succeed if it depends on extraordinary effort or commitment from everyday people who mostly DGAF.

To me it seems weird to think remote login is something unusual, having begun my programming career before the PC era. We sat at dumb terminals and logged into computers that were somewhere else.

And…?

Yes, developing AI is different from all sorts of things - that’s why an AI dev hiring process would assess competence at AI dev. If a candidate demonstrated competence doing that job, using tools they’ll have available at work, what’s the problem?

I don’t know why people simply say, “Thing A is different from Thing B,” as if it’s a mic drop.

LOL I hope you told them “Dude you ARE competing with those companies for my skills, so are you in or not?” It’s really that simple.

At one interview I wasn’t really sure about my answer to a question, so after giving it I asked how they would do it, and the guy who asked said, “Well, I’m not the one being interviewed.” I kept my mouth shut because I really liked everybody else I had talked to, but I wanted to go all Jules on the guy like, “Oh yes you are, Brett, yes you are!” Some employers don’t get that an applicant is also interviewing them (at least I always was).

OTOH assuming the hiring process is competent at assessing job fitness, an applicant who gets through it using AI should be fit to do the job with AI.

Wow, that’s some serious doomsday shit. Tbh I burned out on the franchise and haven’t seen that one.

“Queer shit bags”? It’s not a gender issue, I was saying exactly what I did say, specifically about the term neurodiversity, period. I’m not going to address your other head canon.

Still not sure if you’re serious, but check out the rest of the movies or read this.

In the original novel it’s an alien planet where apes dominate humans, but in the movies humans in the near future on Earth use intelligent apes as slaves until the apes revolt and take over. Eventually a nuclear apocalypse destroys that civilization, which is followed by the less advanced one seen in the first movie. Rod Serling came up with the ending that made it future Earth.

Tbh I’m getting a little tired of neurodivergence being worn like a badge of distinction. People who are neurodivergent aren’t necessarily smarter, more creative or in any other way better than people who aren’t. I’m neurodivergent myself, but so are Musk and Trump FFS.

If it helps, autism is by far not the only reason millions of people constantly run that same program.

I want to think this whole thread is just whimsical, but I have to know for sure - y’all get that it’s future Earth, right?

This is either satirical or the biggest WHOOSH I’ve seen so far this year.

All your base are belong to us.

Way better than the fad of throwing jugs of milk in grocery stores.

My PC meaning “My” PC

The headline is about missing a “cue” as in failing to respond correctly, but it’s misspelled “que” - which happens to be Spanish for “what”, which was the basis for my joke using Spanish question marks.

Same with Ivory. WE’VE BEEN LIED TO!!!