I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job

Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by fragmede on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @09:57PM (#47345345)

Let's compromise. What do you think of 3?

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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by suzzer99 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:11AM (#47346351)

Authorities have been notified.

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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by dotancohen on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:57PM (#47345829)

I just recently read about something that requires - hard requirement - 3 spaces for indentation. Most likely read it here on HN. Makes me sick to even think about.

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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by fc417fc802 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @08:31AM (#47349682)

If I ever NIH a YAML-alike I fully intend to require the mixing of tabs and spaces when indenting.

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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by mystraline on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:03PM (#47345878)

Just add a few zero width spaces. It'll be FINEEEEE :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space

Btw, at an old job, some joker developer added or copied 1, and broke the whole testbed. It was quite funny. I came over to the sourcecode hosted in Gitlab, ran my regexes that look for naughty characters. Found it after it ate the devs for half a day.

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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job by Izkata on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:46PM (#47355339)

More than a decade ago I suggested this as a compromise as a joke, but then decided to try it out - ended up liking it more than any other options and have used it for all my personal stuff ever since.

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