Finally, an AI bot that can ace technical interview questions (Ep. 417)
What if AlphaCode could tackle your technical interview questions?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
We chat about AlphaCode, the AI system created by DeepMind that performed better than 50% of humans on a set of competitive programming challenges. Plus, a comparison of Wall Street fraud to the NFT market and a celebration of Wordle’s big win for the indie developer.
Episode Notes
Learn more about AlphaCode here.
Check out an amazing video essay critiquing the NFT market, The Line Goes Up.
Read up on Josh Wardle, the developer who built Wordle for his partner to help pass the time during the pandemic, then sold it to The New York Times for a sweet seven figures.
Tags: ai, alphacode, the stack overflow podcast
5 Comments
During the episode, it was mentioned that there was interest in where to learn about crypto.
LinkedIn learning has some good videos. Specifically, by a gentleman named Jonathan Reichental, who does a very basic overview to advanced details. I know he has some new stuff out as well but did not renew my LinkedIn pro so I have not had the opportunity to check them out and comment but his material in 2021 was great .
Would it be possible to add transcripts as well? It would really be helpful for who are hard-of-hearing and also would be easier to read in certain cases (e.g. at night without headphones, etc.).
Won’t affect me. I refuse to do those tests. All they determine is how good you are at tests. I’d like to think my 30 years experience tells a better story.
The way I see it, for a programmer to go beyond just the the codegrinder in the corner of the room, people skills are the real talent. Being able to deal with clients (including handling conflict professionally), being able to get requirements and turn them into actionble stuff, coordinating the lifecycle of the project, etc. Now that DOES sound a lot like “Project manager”, I usually do startups and small companies, where often we are our own project managers, so knowing how to interface with humans is a lot more useful than “Can this guy handle this obscure math problem” or “Has he memorized the parameter order from this obscure library”. The obscure math problems rarely have real impacts on work, and *everybody* in this industry has the google-fu so whatever ,thats what Stack Overflow is for anyway!
Dont hire robot men. Hire humans. And them make them love you.
Totally agree with the above!
During the episode, it was mentioned that there was interest in where to learn about crypto.
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LinkedIn learning has some good videos. Specifically, by a gentleman named Jonathan Reichental, who does a very basic overview to advanced details. I know he has some new stuff out as well but did not renew my LinkedIn pro so I have not had the opportunity to check them out and comment but his material in 2021 was great .