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Emmanuel Maggiori
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Emmanuel Maggiori's personal blog at emaggiori.com covers career and culture. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a 'related / fun' collection of ChatGPT failure examples, alongside a GitHub list of similar failures. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-16
What Hacker News says?
Soham got 5 jobs. More than 5 jobs... He kept them for a while too. We didn't lie to comp sci grads, they have the skills to DO the job, but the interview is a whole other skill that they have to learn. There is a gauntlet to be run of goofy interview questions and qualifiers. I dont know any one in the last few years who hasn't gone back to leetcode and the like to brush up if they needed to look. Then you get post…
Comment linking /employed-in-tech-for-years-but-almost-never-worked/
on “Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates”Submitted I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked as a story · 26 points
HN discussionRelated / fun : https://emaggiori.com/chatgpt-fails/ (I don't know the author or the book.) https://github.com/giuven95/chatgpt-failures "Plausible explanations Lack of a world model Models like ChatGPT do not have a "world model" in the sense that they do not have a comprehensive understanding of the physical and social world, and they do not have the ability to reason about the relationships between different conc…
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on “OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Impacted by GPT”Submitted What is really going on at Amazon Fresh? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Silicon Valley a Ponzi Scheme? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I've been employed in tech for years, but I've almost never worked (2023) as a story · 1 points
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