Have a calm discussion with them, make it in-depth technical but also talk to them in a friendly manner. No need for take-home tests or leetcodes, and no need to be a robot also. Why can't it be as simple as that?

I'm 6 years into this "career" (more like a job than a career but anyway) and now I'm coding probably 4 hours per day. It wasn't that different in the beginning though.

It looks like "ai generated" is the problem.

Is this a bigger problem than Microsoft Front Page(or other WYSIWYG) generated code? How would you compare this Upwork contractor quality code?

Frontpage code is isolated in a single file, a single page in your website.

AI code is often reused, because it's code and you are supposed to export/import it. Hence the damage spreads instead of being contained.

> Currently, 79% of SWEs are seeking their next opportunity.

You mean in the US, right? Still hard to believe.

It’s from October 2023, but I feel it is still relevant.

https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2023/oct/30/stack-overfl...

"79 percent of developers are either actively seeking new job opportunities or are open to the idea"

I mean yeah, I don't know a single developer (employed or not) who ever wasn't "open to the idea" of a new job. This is kind of a meaningless statement.

Hmmm.

I see your point, but if you read the article, this is still 2-3x higher than in previous time frames.

It just means employee loyalty continues to erode to one day match company levels of loyalty to employees.

what money...

It matters because it feels better.

I think the most insidious thing about Musk is that his stans and detractors are not reliabily differentiated by intelligence. Plenty of people with outsized IQs love the guy, despite the fact that he's dangerously full of shit.

A person that loves this one must be a total degenerate, and it looks like IQ doesn't correlate with that.

Intelligence is a broader term, of course there are no such tests, only IQ ones... which is to say, i was kind of kidding. But I do despise this culture of total degeneracy nevertheless.

I've spent about 2 years cumulatively doing absolutely nothing at "work".

There was a funny case where I was assigned to a project that had almost no work and no meetings at all. And in another case I was in a dev support team as a junior, where we had meetings but it didn't matter at all what we were reporting, nobody cared if it took you two months or more for a simple bug.

So yeah I think I have some amusing experiences.

VPN isn't exactly supposed to provide safety though.

That's the primary argument in vpn commercials.

It's funny because arguably you achieve less safety routing your traffic through someone else's servers.

Wait, do you just tell it "please be more concise" to whatever you ask of it?

Not OP, but yeah if you tell it to be concise it will be. With GPT4 you can even prescribe a maximum number of sentences and probably words too (haven't tried this one specifically). It will do it. It's a great tool!

With code questions I usually say: 'code only no explanation'. It gets a bit tiresome to type every time, but gpt4 is too slow to wait for it to 'type' the explanation

Can't you seed a conversation with a prompt like that and then just ask your coding questions without retyping that every time?

100%.

I preface all prompts with "Be concise and ask follow-up questions if you need more information" -- Greatly improves the output