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blazing234··on Anthropic acquires Stainless
looks like just an excuse to spend capital
blazing234··on You might not need Redis
I think the crazy thing is people think redis is the only thing that catches in memory.

You could throw a bunch of your production data in SSAS tabular and there you go you have an in memory cache. I've actually deployed that as a solution and the speed is crazy.

blazing234··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
yeah the name of the game now is just to avoid any company that has shitty recruitment. you can tell in an instant if they are worth your time or not, which I'd say in Canada is about 90% a waste of time.

someone who actually wants to hire will want you and wants to do whatever they can to get a good candidate.

blazing234··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
for the first point you better provide a jira ticket with steps to get there (;

i would just look at stack overflow for your second point lol...

blazing234··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
lol what

this is implying interview process actually showcases someone would be good at a job when it isnt

when has leetcode ever translated to web dev... fuckin never lol.

blazing234··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
most experienced developers don't have a portfolio because they code for a living lol
blazing234··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
imagine trying to get a job doing CRUD and getting leetcode style questions.
blazing234··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
if your interviews are easily cheatable you should probably fix the interviews. back in the day when i was in university we were allowed to use any resources for exams cause you couldnt cheat easily.
blazing234··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
this is a good thing.

anyone I know who actually got a job through leetcode style in the last 2 years cheated. they would get their friends to mirror monitor and then type the answers in from chatgpt LOL

blazing234··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
im not doing any coding challenges that aren't real world

if i see anything remotely challenging i dip out. interviewing is just a numbers game nowadays so i dont waste time on interviews if they seem like they're gonna burn me out for the rest of the day. granted i have 11 years experience

blazing234··on You probably don't need query builders
Better off doing it in the application? Bro im not pulling that much data to do a top N query
blazing234··on GPT-4o-powered cleaning robot (built in 4 days)
Guy thought the open in OpenAI means open source
blazing234··on So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?
Why don't you just deploy to cloud run on gcp and call it a day
blazing234··on Lua is so underrated
I weep for the people who have to read your code when you're not around
blazing234··on Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms
How do you know the second result is correct? Or the third? Or the fourth?
blazing234··on Show HN: The most comprehensive authentication library for TypeScript
Why would I use this when I can just use keycloak and call it a day?