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We live in the age of ChatGPT. It might actually be time to assess how candidates use it during interviews. What prompts they write, how they refine their prompts, how they use the answers, whether they take them at face value, etc.


Sure, and we live in the age of calculators. Just because we have calculators doesn't mean we should ban them on math tests. It means you adapt and test for the more important stuff. You remove the rote mundane aspect and focus on the abstract and nuance.

You still can't get GPT to understand and give nuanced responses without significant prompt engineering (usually requiring someone that understands said nuance of the specific problem). So... I'm not concerned. If you're getting GPT to pass your interviews, then you should change your interviews. LLMs are useful tools, but compression machines aren't nuanced thinking machines, even if they can mascaraed as such in fun examples.

Essentially ask yourself this: why in my example was the engineer not only okay with me grabbing my book but happy? Understand that and you'll understand my point.

Edit: I see you're the founder of Archipelago AI. I happen to be an ML researcher. We both know that there's lots of snakeoil in this field. Are you telling me you can't frequently sniff that out? Rabbit? Devon? Humane Pin? I have receipts for calling several of these out at launch. (I haven't looked more than your profile, should I look at your company?)


I'm actually not talking about interviewees (ab)using ChatGPT to pass interviews and interviewers trying to catch that or work around that. I'm talking about testing candidates' use of ChatGPT as one of the skills they have.

> I see you're the founder of Archipelago AI.

I don't know where you got that from, but I'm not.


> I'm talking about testing candidates' use of ChatGPT as one of the skills they have.

The same way? I guess I'm confused why this is any different. You ask them? Assuming you have expertise in this, then you do that. If you don't, you ask them to maybe demonstrate it and try to listen while they explain. I'll give you a strong hint here: people that know their shit talk about nuance. They might be shy and not give it to you right away or might think they're "showing off" or something else, but it is not too hard to get experts to excitedly talk about things they're experts in. Look for that.

> I don't know where you got that from, but I'm not.

Ops, somehow I clicked esafak's profile instead. My bad


You might as well ask how they use book libraries and web search.




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