I applied to work through Turing. This involved being video interviewed by an AI (which was fine, I guess), and then doing a coding challenge while sharing my screen. Not only no AI allowed, but also no docs allowed! Who remembers every language's syntax? Even before AI coding was a thing, I always had a docs tab open!
So, that didn't go great. Hopefully I'll get points for my logic, even if the code is far from runnable.
I have also learned that — while I don't feel jittery — I get nerves in live coding that just straight-up blanks my brain. This is not helping me get hired.
First of all, it's a travesty that job sites don't accept JSON Resume. Imagine uploading it to a Gist and telling all the sites to use it. Simple!
Instead, you've got to painstakingly copy and paste every piece of info into LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster (is that still a thing?), etc.
But what you can do is keep your resume in JSON as your Single Source of Truth and generate HTML/PDF from that. Nowhere near as good, but better than nothing. For a while I was using JSON Resume Registry to generate, but more recently I realized that creating a custom parser is something AIs are really good at.
Oh this is a good idea. Does it make sense to use commas for aliases, as well?
https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
I really like Linux but occasionally I'll need to do what would be a simple task on a Windows or Mac machine and hit an impenetrable wall. Today it's screen recording (on Wayland, naturally). The only solution that seems like it might work is OBS, but oof that learning curve.
#linux #wayland #obs
Resisting the impulse to open-source my in-progress AI assistant that is clearly inferior to Clawd.bot, which I discovered this morning. When software is so cheap to make, there's not much point in sharing hobby projects (unless people are using them).
I had fun, at least.
I have a fondness for Jules. The $20/mo account gets you 100(!) sessions a day, and it does the work on its own servers, so you can check on it through out the day on your phone. And it's Gemini 3, which is pretty good!
I found myself doing the same “Keep working, Jules” loop, so I made verne_durand. Give it a checklist, and it will chug-chug-chug its way through it, doing its best to work around Jules' flakiness.
#googlejules #gemini #ai
I keep having tiny little thoughts about technical things. Instead of forgetting them (or posting them to shudder LinkedIn), I think I'll have a tiny blog.
Lately Gemini Fast and Pro have been avoiding search and confabulating about it. I can even give them a URL, and they'll make up a detailed description of what they found there (all inferred from the words in the URL). I've started using Claude more.
#Gemini #Claude #AI