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Angry upvote Manual Coding

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u/[deleted] 2d ago edited 10h ago

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u/MrScotchyScotch 2d ago

You mean your company doesn't have a single person whose job is HR and whose name on slack is HR and makes jokes about not hiring people?

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u/palk0n 2d ago

his name? albert einstein

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u/denied_eXeal 2d ago

Halbert Reinstein obviously

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u/capeasypants 2d ago

But who was phone?

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u/lid-flip-smiles 1d ago

Some kind of...

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u/MissBlackLace 2d ago

That dude never wrote a single line of code in his life

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u/PryomancerMTGA 2d ago

I can't even imagine a situation in which well written code for a basic task would be given a 0% probability of being AI written.

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u/buttonmasher525 1d ago

Unless his coding style is super non-standard and an AI wouldn't use his method of whitespace management or something. Like if he put his curly braces in a weird spot or something else along those lines. But yeah 0% is still wild tho.

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u/the_useful_comment 2d ago

If it was the person who wasn’t hire dodged a huge bullet. Culture would be trash.

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u/Jack_Mehoff_420_69 2d ago

I don't understand the angry upvote here. Could anyone explain?

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u/Drudgework 2d ago

When I was going through my software design courses the philosophy was if your design docs are good enough you shouldn’t have to code it yourself. The idea was that with proper documentation you could pass the coding off to lower paid employees for cost savings. Ai coding would have been a revelation to my professors back then. But now the philosophy is don’t bother documenting anything, we’ll pay extra for an ai to design and code it, then pay for another AI to debug it every time it breaks because no one knows how it works.

The industry has learned the wrong lesson and this is going to go the same way American manufacturing did. First we offloaded the labor and only did the high level stuff. Then we offloaded the designing and only did the research. Now we’re offloading the research and no one knows how to actually make things anymore even so we are beholden to other people that definitely aren’t our friends for everything we need and they can charge whatever they want for it, because what are we going to do? Make it ourselves?

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u/COFFEE_DAMMNIT 2d ago

Man public libraries are gonna be popping in the next twenty years

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u/NighthawK1911 2d ago

Dumbass HR.

This is why you don't give HR veto powers like that. Same with nepo middle management.

Meritocracy can only work if technical people get into management.

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u/cowboysaurus21 2d ago

You know this isn't real right

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u/A_Trash_Homosapien 2d ago

They need to believe it's real. It helps them cope.

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u/JaironKalach 2d ago

Technical people are often the worst. They only know how to hire clones of themselves.

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u/Yataro_Ibuza 2d ago

Because that's what the company actually needs

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u/JellyHops 9h ago

non tech ppl are famously immune to echo chambers

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u/DJNgamez 2d ago

Funny sure, but it's important to note that "AI detectors" are very regularly wrong and unreliable

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u/Rabbidraccoon18 2d ago

Yeah they just detect patters if you change the style a bit it'll significantly reduce the percentage.

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u/ActurusMajoris 1d ago

Yeah that’s a problem for us that likes consistency and do spell checking.

You have to introduce rrors on purpose to avoid being accused of using AI :/

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u/DJNgamez 1d ago

You can also inject white/invisible text between paragraphs with random junk so AI detectors detect it's real without having to actually make errors in the readable portion

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u/juliankennedy23 2d ago

I mean the idea anyone in HR could perform a task like that is science fiction. They have trouble with opening a PDF.

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u/CheapTactics 1d ago

Is this the epic games HR department?

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u/davep1970 2d ago

definitely happened /s

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u/Flynnza 2d ago

suddenly so many Priyas after chatgpt emerged, lol

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u/Cunibon 2d ago

My company actually also did this a couple of times.

Not with running the code through a tool, but just generally, if they said the still write code by hand they were disqualified.

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u/TheOpeningThread 1d ago

Yeah "haha". Hope he doesn't complain when his ai regional manager tells him the same thing on his way out

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u/Maleficent-Lead-2943 1d ago

Because it would know to be 0% the same way it knows when its 100%

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/[deleted] 2d ago edited 10h ago

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u/cowboysaurus21 2d ago

To be fair I've had many jobs and never used Slack (but I still knew what it was)

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u/[deleted] 2d ago edited 10h ago

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u/cowboysaurus21 2d ago

All my miserable friends in corporate jobs are forced to use it

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u/killer-tank218 1d ago

Ngl, discord not in dark mode is so cursed I genuinely didn’t realize it was discord for a minute.

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u/LiterallyRain 23h ago

I think it's Slack

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u/LiterallyRain 23h ago

Probably fake. But tbh if I was an employer I wouldn't hire someone who only codes by hand either. Not using available tools is just stubborn. If they asked whether they're permitted to use AI or not and got told no then that changes things.

Depends on the length and nature of the code though. If it's a few lines then whatever, but if they hand coded 500 lines that isn't very complex I'd find it questionable, because a well written prompt could produce the same result in a fraction of the time even with reasonable complexity, and I'd be paying for their time.

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u/eugene20 2h ago

If a live code assessment is just getting AI generated results they almost may as well just ask which LLM they intend to use and be done with it.

I did say almost, I'm well aware better crafted prompts will have better results.

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u/Only_Ad7715 2d ago

shit is getting real