I believe part of the post is referring to that idea (self disclosure and weirdness) itself, and the idea that the author usually does try to limit it. Even without this specific post, the "weirdness" can come across in an in-person interview and other ways. Some people are normal, some can pretend to be, and others either can't manage to pretend or its too difficult/painful to do for long periods of time.

Its not always bad to expose it and not always bad to get rejected because of it. Personality mismatch can make any job miserable.

Regardless, it feels bad to get rejected and that, I think, is what the article is making a point about.

Yes, unless I use a really dumb really fast AI autocomplete (e.g. SuperMaven)

Yeah something tells me scheduling coordination and planning aren't William Osman's strongest skills.

The group really needs to hire a long term secretary that understands engineers and content creation.

I feel like everything about this event is about quality over quantity which is incredibly rare these days & likely what most participants & attendees value about the event. Adding a lot of professionalism to it is going to dilute that aspect.

(& no quality!=production value)

> it doesn't translate to engineering careers

From one teacher to another, I'm sorry what?

If teaching kids how build things doesn't encourage them to become engineers, what does?

If you're taking about attention grabbing Youtuber-engineers, I think that is very different than the makerspace movement that gives people access to CNC machines/3D printers/welders without a person needing to personally own a CNC machine/3D printer/welder.

All of the greatest engineers I know spent their childhood playing with legos, hot glue, solding irons, and hobby rocket kits.

I think this could help lead to the corporate change you're hoping for.

I've been wanting this for a while! As an alpha prototype its great. Skip/Skim/Deep dive feels like the right breakdown to me. Having a different color but same UI feels right too.

Other than quality of life stuff (multiple pages for example), I'd like to see it continually learn.

A few things got miscategorized and I'd love for it to naturally correct that with additional input from me.

Hey so cool to hear! the skim/skip/dive mapped to how we use things, but thats sample size of 3 haha.

The idea of having some kind of thumbs up/down on what you see after getting recs, that gets added to your preferences, or being able to do another round of preferences (rather than just re-doing them like we have now) is for sure on our next steps if we continue with. Were not quite sure what the feedback loops will be yet (we did look at adding whole webhistory for example but that felt like a bit much and pretty invasive).

For the miscats, on a meta level what we are generally interested in is whether they come from compression of the preferences into your user profile (essentially if more or better data is the path to better context for such a specific usecase, or whether there is more bang for buck optimizing the various prompts. Keen to hear if its obvious from looking at your profile what was the case.

If we get serious with this evals are a must next step. We are only 2 days in at the moment :)

If your disappointed by this being from 2017, check out some actual recent advancements (June 17 2025) by a different company https://generalistai.com/blog.html

I think the robot sorting Lego bricks has an attitude.

That was amazing.

Starbucks is my favorite place to worship

Thank you. (Wouldn't have read otherwise)

I'm glad you're telling us it should be socially acceptable to treat you like a robot at your job. I hope every customer coworker and business partner honors your wish by pretending you are a lifeless chunk of metal with no purpose other than satisfying the agreed upon transaction. If insulting you feels good to them, I hope they will berate you endlessless for things that are not your fault (a robot wouldn't care). After all, whether its reliability or the desire for a verbal punching bag, the customer is always right regardless of anything the employee may feel.

When you are old and gray, I hope strangers continue to honor your wish by seeing you as a worthless husk because you no longer capable of offering any services they care about.

Old people I know that treat employees like robots don't have many friends or family they care about them. Maybe, if you coincidentally end up in that position too, you can pay robots to keep you company. I hear they're very reliable and predictable.

Could you explain what stops _you_ from punching different machines (coffee machines, ATMs etc)? After all they are exactly that - robots, and your comment makes it quite clear that it’s OK. And also human workers who for different reasons are unable to socialize with you while doong their jobs?

I subscribe to the "No Hello" philosophy, for what it's worth:

https://nohello.net/en/