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New comment by telmop in "The worst job interview I ever had"

telmop — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:25:01 +0000

I've had quite a few too:

* The most recent one: I was doing an "AI assisted coding interview". The problem itself was simple. I gathered clear specs, I explained what I planned to do. I was supposed to use AI so I wrote down the main function signatures I expected (the API boundary) and wrote in the prompt what I wanted Claude to do. I wrote no code myself other than editing the output. When I got rejected, I was told it was because "I wrote too much code myself".

* Once I was asked a brain teaser. I solved the initial problem, but one of the follow-ups made it significantly more challenging. I wrestled with the problem for a few minutes, and realizing I was going around in circles I stated so and told the interviewer I wasn't sure how to proceed. I was expecting a tip or at least an acknowledgement, but I heard nothing. Blank silence with the interviewer staring at the screen. Since it was a zoom call, I thought my internet was down, but when I asked "hey, can you hear me?", he replied yes, and went back to radio silence. This was a pattern of the interviewer throughout the interview. Later on, after this question I implemented an algorithm and was asked for its time complexity. I mistakenly said O(n) (I forgot the initial sort), and the interviewer literally just stared at the screen and said nothing until after 10 seconds or so when I realized my mistake and corrected it - at which point he acknowledged and moved to the next question.

* Another one that happened two times (at different companies) is getting asked a very vague question, like "how do you fix a bug in production" (to which I reply with 'I try to replicate it locally, I go through logs, etc') and then being told by the recruiter the interviewer didn't like that my responses were "too generic".

How to Detect AI Slop

telmop — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:45:52 +0000

Article URL: https://telmo.dev/posts/deepfake_detection/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515705

Points: 3

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New comment by telmop in "How to Detect Deepfakes"

telmop — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:39:24 +0000

Author here. I expect most to be ironed out too, regardless of whether they're publicized or not. The engineers working on these models are aware of the problems

How to Detect Deepfakes

telmop — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:19:59 +0000

Article URL: https://telmo.dev/posts/deepfake_detection/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264779

Points: 2

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New comment by telmop in "Show HN: Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication that works at 30–90% sparsity"

telmop — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:29:25 +0000

Cool method. Pre deep learning there was plenty of interesting research on sparse methods. What do you think we're missing to have more widely used neural+sparse approaches?

SaulLM-7B: A Pioneering Large Language Model for Law

telmop — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:34:37 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03883

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39626604

Points: 3

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New comment by telmop in "Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”"

telmop — Thu, 04 May 2023 22:42:16 +0000

Does this mean Google will be releasing OSS LLMs? They could justify it as "commoditizing your competitors business".

ChatGPT can (sort of) play Tic-Tac-Toe

telmop — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:37:22 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/thetruetelmo/status/1608907782450982912

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34189031

Points: 3

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