> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

A really good way of weeding out the recruiter spam is to change your first name to an emoji (I use the waving hand) and then put first name and last name in the last name field. That way when a DM opens with 'hello %waving hand emoji%' you know it's just scripted bulk crap.

Cool idea. I used to have

"[crab emoji] positions only - or get blocked"

in my profile and it did not deter anyone from offering me Java positions.

Okay, but maybe recruiters aren't up on rust iconography. Seems like an ineffective way to communicate a preference (vs it being a shibboleth with the GP).

I mean, unless the recruiter is a rust programmer they're going to have a hard time distinguishing your profile vs just "positions only - or get blocked" (ie don't contact me unless it's about recruitment).

That was very much the intention. I think good tech recruiters should know their field and I know some that do. It's just that LinkedIn is a swamp of bad ones and my little experiment proofed to me that signal noise ratio there is so low that it is useless for me.

Telling someone not to contact you in a way you expect them not to understand seems like a mostly philosophical exercise.

Is it bad to use automation?

Yes. If I want a job without a prior relationship there’s plenty of sites for that like indeed. I’m only interested in job offers from people who have read and valued my work.

Edit: and clearly this is the case because it’s not “Google bot”, it’s a robot pretending to be human like “Amy Bushwack from google” but really it’s a bot

TBH automation for finding/filtering candidates, but preferably personal email to my inbox. I can tell when you’ve used some cruddy software to send automated follow-ups four times after I didn’t respond to the first message.

I agree - I would expect all follow-ups to be personalized. If my job was a recruiter, I would probably use templates for FAQs to save time.

Good idea! Thank you

LLMs have solved this at scale. Really you're just filtering for more technologically sophisticated recruiters at volume.

Yeah, it was never going to be a forever solution, but it's served me well for the last few years.

Given the average LinkedIn recruiter, filtering for more technologically sophisticated recruiters is a decent value add.

Do you not think that maybe those people care about you and would like to know how you are? I appreciate that you have your boundaries, but it doesn't sound like you're considering their point of view. Or maybe you are but it isn't conveyed in the post well.

You're correct, I'm not considering their point of view. Bukowski said it best - your life is your life. Don't let it be beaten into dank submission.

I'm a different person, but maybe: Their family is where they got zapped. And that fence is probably still working.

Same for me...

My eureka moment when I first started using Cursor a few weeks back was realising that I talking to it the same way I talk to my three year old and the results were fairly good (less so from my boy at times).

Yeah it's also kind of funny people discovering all the LLM failure modes and saying "see! humans would never do that! it's not really intelligent!". None of those people have children...

I don't want a computer that's as unreliable as a child. This is not what originally interested me about computers.

Nobody said you did. I'm talking about the confidently incorrect assertions that humans would never display any of these unreliable behaviours.

They don't. At least not for the duration that LLMs keep it up. They really don't.

If you want to pretend that being a 3 year old is not a transient state, and that controlling an AI is just like parenting an eternal 3 year old, there's probably a manga about that.

Maybe because none of those people are imagining children to be eternally stuck at that level of intelligence. At that age (regardless of being a parent or not) you can literally see them getting smarter over the course of weeks or months.

Couldn't agree more with this. A stock I hold suddenly started trending sharply upwards earlier in the year and when I asked Perplexity to research why it came back with a very detailed and well-cited explanation. It's far more efficient at distilling stuff down into a useful format than if I were to Google it myself

Do you really think that the LLM knows or cares whether you get fired? Your mistake here is treating LLMs are sentient when all they really are is a token probability predictor.

I'm sure the genius employees at these companies can do a search and replace (possibly client-side) to fix the quotation mark issue.

Of course, some things, such as having too many em dashes, would require more work to fix.

Yup, a recent update fixed a bug which I corresponded with the developer about a little while ago; I was very pleased to see it implemented.

I second this, I have a 4 node Proxmox cluster running on MFF Optiplexes and it's been great. 32gb of RAM in each and a second USB NIC (bonded with the built-in NIC) makes for a powerful little machine with low power draw in a convenient package.

But they do have one, so your point is moot.

My personal preference for log tailing is Stern. It doesn't have a web UI but then I've never felt like I needed one.

https://github.com/stern/stern

Happy to see this mentioned and still being useful to people! I started this project 9 years ago at a startup but progress stopped when the startup got acquired. The community took over and has done a fantastic job keeping it alive

If you get a chance to try out the Kubetail CLI, I'd love to hear your thoughts! There's a lot of overlap with stern at the moment but we're planning on adding new features soon that will be unique (e.g. remote grep, system logs).

I was about to comment about Stern. It's an established well known OSS project - I wonder if the author knew about it, and if so.. what was his inspiration for creating an almost identical clone, albeit with a UI on top?

+1 for Stern especially since it only has Go dependencies whereas Kubetail does not. Ease of integration with an existing stack is a bigger addition than the lack of a web UI is a subtraction.

Stern is the best!