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LLMs are mirrors of operator skill


This is a follow-up from my previous blog post: "deliberate intentional practice". I didn't want to get into the distinction between skilled and unskilled because people take offence to it, but AI is a matter of skill. Someone can be highly experienced as a software engineer in 2024, but that

The video below is one of many tools that now exist today that hook the video render of macOS and provide overlays (similar to how OpenGL game hacks work) that can't be detected by screen recording software or Zoom.The software interview process was never great but it's taken a turn for the worst as AI can easily solve any thing thrown at it - including interview screenings. If they waste time by not using the debugger, adding debug log statements, or writing tests, then they're not a good fit. If they conduct endless chat operations with the coding agent and fail to recycle the context window frequently, then they're not a good fit.

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