Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using...
by dheera on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:40PM
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> implement a correct concurrent http server in 1/10th the time with an LLM than what you could do it without
Absolutely fucking yes.
Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using...
by jpc0 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:09AM
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In that case, could you begin proving that point by having it write an http request parser. Let's make it easy and have it require content length header and no support for chunked encoding at first. Csn pick any language you like but since thats such critical infrastructure it must export a C API. Let's also restrict it to HTTP 1/1.1 for the sake of time.
Concidering this would probably at most take a days work to get at least a workable prototype done if not a full implementation, using an AI you should be able to do it in a lunch break.
Do you seriously expect a 10x improvement with the use of LLMs vs no LLMs? Have you seen this personally, are you 1 10th the developer without an LLM? Or is the coding interview questions you ask or get asked, how to implement quicksort, or something?
Let's make it concrete, do you feel like you could implement a correct concurrent http server in 1/10th the time with an LLM than what you could do it without? Because if you jut let the LLM do the work I could probably find some issue in that code or alternatively completely stump you with an architectural question unless you are already familiar with it, and you should not be having an LLM implement something you couldn't have written yourself.