Something I appreciated when going through Anthropic interview process was that I only dealt with humans. They could have been showcasing how even their interviews are done with Claude or something, but no, the whole loop was interacting with real humans, and nothing was on the topic “how do you work with LLMs”. It was about how me, the human, think and approach situations, and how I handle working with others (humans), etc. Which made a lot of sense to me, and I overall appreciated their process (other than it’s very time consuming, requires lots of prep). But it’s interesting to see that AI labs customers feel the need to showcase how much of their processes are now around agentic stuff
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Hmmm... I had a different experience. They had a fully automated environment where you ha to write test that passes some tests. No human involved. And the time requirement was insanely tight
Interesting, I'm wondering if that varies depending on the hiring team? Or maybe my experience wasn't standard as it was part of an acquisition process, though I'm pretty sure I did all the steps of their interview process. Or we were in different tracks. I don't know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I did find my interviews (with humans) to be quite tight too
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they will use their own product. but they will rule like the plutocracy that they are. they will tell me that they are not privileged to have my custom, rather, i am privileged to be their customer.
we will tell ourselves that we should wait eagerly to see if we will be graced by "tibo's" largesse, like peasants clamouring to see a royal throwing bread among the masses.
or that it is right and good that claude should refuse to answer on account of safety, but hack other companies on behalf of anthropic. surely we are too simple, and sometimes naive, truly we know not what is best for ourselves.
no more.
Vive la révolution!!
AI critics and honest AI executives of 2023 might say that AI companies are automating labor so that Capital can capture all productive value. But we have to give them some credit. They are hiring real humans. And not even hounding them about how they are not being sufficiently useless-meatbag relay points for the AI models and agents. And that demonstrates that they are actually being real humane mensch.
Meanwhile, how many jobs have AI critics created? Crickets.