I like people who are enthusiastic about tech. It is pretty easy to tell when you have 60 minutes with them.
We're here to build stuff and improve continuously and if someone can't do that or seems to be the type of person who needs hand holding (they don't seem like they can even attempt to think on their own) then its not a good fit.
I think the problem recently is that SWE became way too easy. It is the easiest job right now if you can grind out a couple months you can make 400k plus easily. If you can't or find a way to make excuses about why you can't yngmi and I'm not interested in speaking with you.
But if you agree with that sentiment, then you know the game is rigged and gamed. So it is now important to sniff out the fakers. So many people can memorize LC, and then you throw a small twist and their brain which they've turned into a nvme drive to memorize and fast lookup shit crashes because their brain is basically a dual core and 4gb ram with a ton of storage of shit.
I'd rather take the person who's got a workstation and can do shit, instead of the person who maxxed out storage.
What I see is, whether your mental model is wired for resilience. Programming is basically math with logical reasoning. Having this basic skill is must.
I always go for these fundamentals rather that heavy vibe coding.
agents can work with other agents, which is the interesting part
as for the openclaw obsession, i think eventually -
1. it will have a small niche market for off the rails experience
2. apple/google will build a walled garden theme park experience on siri/assistant and it will be pretty good and integrated. 99% of people will use this
Hey Siri, order my usual at Starbucks and schedule it for 7am.
It will use whatever APIs are exposed and schedule it. You run late, maybe 15 min before before you realize you'll be late. "Hey Siri, can we push my Starbucks order ahead by 15 minutes?" API says not possible, order already started. "Unfortunately, your order is already being made."
3-6 months later, agentic sdk integrations will make it possible for the Starbucks app to do close to real time order management based on location.
Ta da. Actual shit that is useful.
I think the only apps we'll use will be business apps and social/fun/engagement farming type of apps. Most other things, like ordering food or shopping, will be done by the on device assistants. Most of those are just static APIs and web hooks.
Honestly posts like theirs are just indicative of someone who never understood their job/role.
People throw out terms like agile or waterfall, shit on agile etc. probably because they work at some worse than mediocre place let alone ever done their own thing.
seems to keep the posture in check
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