Still better than interns who spend a quarter of their internship figuring out their development environment and the rest of it working on maybe one issue a week Onboarding at a new company is hard enough for experienced developers!
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Improving Chat Completions API conversation handling and deduplication
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That's the idea, yeah – that and do a better job handling Chat Completions API style things where a full conversation is passed at once (I want to dedupe that into an existing tree)
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GitHub Reportedly Increasing Intern Headcount Plans
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I think I've heard GitHub talking about this but I don't have a formal link about them actively increasing their intern headcount yet
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Shopify VP Engineering Plans Massive 1000 Intern Hiring Initiative
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Shopify VP Engineering @fnthawar talks about hiring 1,000 interns in this interview with @GergelyOrosz here, at 32:50
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AI Tools Multiply Employee Contributions Without Replacing Workforce
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Here's the Cloudflare announcement about this: "AI tools […] are not replacements for new hires — but ways to multiply how new hires can contribute to a team."
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AI-Powered Interns Boost Tech Company Hiring Strategies
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I heard that Shopify and Cloudflare are both increasing their intern intake this year because an intern armed with AI tools can produce value a whole lot faster than interns in previous years Any other companies doing this?
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AI Model Bias in Political Fact Training Data
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Most of the models have that these days – they use to because they have four years of training data that says Trump lies about winning an election that he lost (in 2020)
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LLMs as Code Writing Assistance: Measuring Development Productivity
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I think it's useful because it's a direct measure of how much literal code I would have needed to write myself if I didn't have help from the LLMs
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Managing AI-Generated Code Dependencies Effectively
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I usually tell my AI generated code exactly which dependencies to use – "use httpx", "write the tests with pytest", "don't use React" so that problem doesn't come up very often for me!
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LLMs as Custom Solution Builders Replacing External Dependencies
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It's so different Adding an external library as a dependency is a big overhead: you have to evaluate that it does what you need, and does it well, and tha it's liable to be maintained by a responsible team long into the future LLMs can build you the exact solution you need