Ive had people show up at onsites that were clearly not the same person I screened over the phone earlier as far back as 2013 at google. It’s real. Just ask any recruiters from well known companies and they’ll tell you. It’s happening to more and more startups too now because it’s gotten easier

I believe you, but again: I haven't experienced anything like this, ever. One of the clearest results we got at Matasano adopting this approach was a drastic reduction in turnover, which is exactly the opposite of what you expect to see if people are scamming their way into jobs they can't do. That's held up (I don't have the before/after comparison, but I do have the industry-wide comparison) over the years afterwards. We hire these people, then we work with them, and they're amazing.

Ime take-homes was a good way to purge all the good candidates with options from your pipeline as they would simply not turn anything in and go with someone else. Maybe with AI and so many layoffs it’s better now I haven’t tried in last couple of years though i doubt it

People have been telling me that for 18 years and (a) we've hired our fair share of candidates with gold-plated resumes (and stopped hiring candidates that only had gold-plated resumes, acquired from failing up) and (b) the nontraditional background candidates we've hired have generally been our top performers.

Hiring in most of the tech industry is gatekept, and like every protectionist scheme, it isn't organized for productivity.

Take homes are much lower signal now with AI

Depends on what you ask, i suppose. I’m sure i can come up with something that can’t simply be one shot or the result would be bad if you do. A bit more difficult on logistics tho as you’d have to arrange for an environment with some prepaid llm access

Without a way to estimate "AI power" used for the task I don't see how you can fairly rate home assignments.

Like i said either use pre-baked env or give a candidate an auth token with something like $100-200 quota from the provider your company already uses

I started using Claude web with sonnet over chatgpt before any of the coding tools came out and noticed other founders were using it too and the reason was pretty simple - it was much less likely to hallucinate non existing APIs than ChatGPT

Most of the world doesnt have access to good/cheap canadian lumber and we do. It would make sfhs and even small multihome projects more expensive not less if you start building them from concrete and steel. Also at the risk of stating the obvious - frame is on the order of 10-20% of the total construction cost so wouldn’t really make much of difference anyway

I was noticing on my last trip to Europe that telephone/power poles were made of concrete, not wood. This was near Budapest.

Same reason - US had a lot of timber and Europe generally didn't by the time industrial revolution came. In addition, a lot of eastern europe had to be totally rebuilt from scratch after ww2 and especially soviets were never really good with money (duh) and did a lot of the things for the show.

> friendly neighborhood murderers

i mean it's durable as long as nothing crashes or litestream has a data corruption bug which only happens every other release...

> Under heavy allocation, P99 latency tails are noticeably worse than a Rust equivalent that simply doesn’t allocate on the hot path.

Lmao so not an equivalent then? Standard glibc malloc, which is default in rust, will also similarly degrade albeit for different reasons.

PERM doesn’t just apply to h1b, having to prove no qualified hires was never required for h1b, it’s green card requirement which also applies to o1 and bunch of others. PERM is the thing that is stupid - they should automatically grant you GC if youve been legally employed for 5 years or something and dont have any criminal records

What’s different is in this case is applicants have years of status “runway” and can just sue or wait it out so to speak. I’m betting they will have to walk some of it back

They buy a lot of companies then restructure them and that causes these layoffs. I think it’s just normal way of doing business for them. And the stock is up 20% after hours =)