samir,
@samir@functional.computer avatar

I used to ask a programming interview question along the lines of "implement FizzBuzz as badly as you can". It helps me understand what horrors they've seen.

I think I need to update it to "convince ChatGPT to spit out something that's as terrible as possible, and explain why it's terrible".

kellogh,
@kellogh@hachyderm.io avatar

@samir ha, it’s not a bad way to interview, although you’d want other data points to go with it. If you do this, though, you’re effectively requiring that they know how to use ChatGPT and I’m not sure, yet, that’s a reasonable thing to require

samir,
@samir@functional.computer avatar

@kellogh Ah, I’m just kidding. I don’t know how to use it either. I just see people mocking it constantly. 😛

kellogh,
@kellogh@hachyderm.io avatar

@samir imo its an extremely useful tool, and despite how magical it feels, it takes skill to avoid it's pitfalls and get the most value out of it.

Most of the criticism is people asking it to do dumb things and it does dumb things, which was never interesting

samir,
@samir@functional.computer avatar

@kellogh I have personally seen examples of it making up standard library functions, for example. I’m not sure how contrived you have to get to make it recommend rm -rf /*.

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