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I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

Walk. 50 meters is shorter than most parking lots — you'd spend more time starting the car and parking than walking there. Plus, driving to a car wash you're about to use defeats the purpose if traffic or weather dirties it en route.

> If AI is an issue for you then just ban it.

Yes, that was the conclusion I just said we rapidly came to.

That said, now we're just talking about take home challenges for interviews and you always hear complaints about those too. And shorter, async timed challenges (something like "Here's a few hours to solve this problem, I'll check back in later") are now going to be way more difficult to judge since AI is now ubiquitous.

So I really don't think there's any perfect methodology out there right now. The best I can come up with is to get the candidate in front of you and talk through problems with them. The best barometer I found so far was to set up a small collection of files making up a tiny app and then have candidates debug it with me.

But yeah, the point is that once I applied it in practice it did quickly become confusing, so now I know from experience not to use it.

I think the other suggestions in this thread about how to use it are good ones, but they would present their own meta challenges for an interview too. Just about finding whatever balance works for you I guess.

It proved to be awkward and clumsy very quickly. Some candidates resisted it since they clearly thought it would make them judged harsher. Some candidates were on the other extreme and basically tried asking ChatGPT the problem straight up, even though I clarified up front "You can even use ChatGPT as long as you're not just directly asking for the solution to the whole problem and just copy/pasting, obviously."

After just the initial batch of candidates it became clear it was muddying things too much, so I simply forbade using it for the rest of the candidates, and those interviews went much smoother.

You can totally min/max your entire life and only do things for self-improvement, but then to what end? What do you expect to derive out of the continuing education classes that is going to be significantly valuable to your life/career?

I think it's important to note that many people are actually quite satisfied with their position in life, a lot of us are making a lot of money engaging in interesting work, so at a certain point doing things for the sake of minimizing opportunity cost comes with diminishing returns as you've already made the most of the opportunities you've already had. The whole point of working hard is to reach some stage of life where you can actually reap the rewards and have the time and resources to enjoy yourself however you please without worrying about it.

I mean sure yeah, in the past I would pay for logos from artists and now I just make them with AI for my projects instead.

The reverse doesn't hold -- there are no tools that allow an artist with no training or study to be an effective developer. I'd say the CMS example is more of a data entry job than a development job now, it's two different things.

Most of the advancements in tech still need trained developers to utilize them. GPT-4 cannot create non-trivial programs itself and does not seem particularly close to doing so, it's mainly used for scaffolding and bug fixing and guiding, all of which still need a trained developer at the wheel.

I'm worried for the future of artists.