Ask HN: How are you interviewing engineers in this agentic era?
Curious to know how are you interviewing engineers?Do you have a no-LLM policy? Are take-home tests worth it? How do you make sure engineer is a "good" engineer?
Curious to know how are you interviewing engineers?Do you have a no-LLM policy? Are take-home tests worth it? How do you make sure engineer is a "good" engineer?
https://github.com/juancgarza/cody
hey HN! This is Cody, I used GPT Realtime and gave it access to nvim and its native tools so you can literally talk instead of writing nvim commands.It's a prototype still, but the experience is really interesting. This is what I imagine using the soon-to-release Thinking Machines API. Let me know what you think :)
The instant feedback-loop of iterating over components is great and perfect for me when I'm designing a feature that's heavy on the client side of things.
For example it took me half a day to go from idea -> design -> implementation
B2B side asked for an analytics dashboard, we manually sent them Retool apps segmented with their data hardcoding ids in the query.
My experience:
- It's hard, if your playing a video game it would be in `very hard` mode
- Talk to your wife beforehand, she was okay with the opportunity
- Had a LOT of savings
- Have a co-founder (highly recommend it)
- We've raised preseed money (co-founder handled all of that)
- I hired an ex-coworker that I worked with previously (that's why you raise money)
- I'm remote so I get to spend more time with my baby (if I'm not productive during that day I try to code long nights and usually feed the baby during the night so my wife rests)
Overall it's been super hard but gratifying :)
PS: I also try to exercise for an hour a day to keep me sane
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