• froztbyte@awful.systems
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    5 hours ago

    wow 90%, do you have actual studies to back up that number you’re about to claim you didn’t just pull out of your ass?

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      2 hours ago

      This reminds me of another post I’d read, “Hey, wait – is employee performance really Gaussian distributed??”.

      There’s this phenomenon when you’re an interviewer at a decently-funded start-up where you take a ton of interviews and say “OMG developers are so bad”. But you’ve mistakenly defined “developer” as “person who applies for a developer job”. GPT3.5 is certainly better at solving interview questions than 90% of the people who apply. But it’s worse than the people who actually pass the interview. (In part because the interview is more than just implementing a standard interview problem.)

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        2 hours ago

        your post has done a significantly better job of understanding the issue than a rather-uncomfortably-large amount of programming.dev posters we get, and that’s refreshing!

        and, yep