Chris WarkentinAre You Smarter Than An LLM?I wonder if we will look back on this AI revolution and be embarrassed for our arrogance in assuming that our much vaunted intelligence was…May 17May 17
Chris WarkentinUsing ChatGPT to Cheat on Interviews (and maybe to do my job…)Over the past few months I’ve done many interviews and spent some time bemoaning the state of the modern technical interview. It’s a…Dec 30, 2022Dec 30, 2022
Chris WarkentinHave AI Chatbots Entered The Uncanny Valley?In the world of emulating humans it’s possible to enter a place known as the uncanny valley. If you plot our emotional response, comfort…Dec 14, 2022Dec 14, 2022
Chris WarkentinVictims of Power StructuresPreface: I’m leaving the story below since it was a useful way for me to clarify some of my thinking. My argument on Twitter was not well…Nov 21, 20222Nov 21, 20222
Chris WarkentinSerializing C++ with X-MacrosOnce upon a time I was yanked out of my cozy safe space working on a video transport SDK and was told, “Guess what? You’re going to be…Nov 16, 2022Nov 16, 2022
Chris WarkentinLayoff Virgin…Cut For The Very First Time“It must have been love, but it’s over now.” — RoxetteNov 13, 2022Nov 13, 2022
Chris WarkentinI’m Bad at Software ArchitectureAt least that’s what I was told. To be precise, the feedback from a full round of interviews with multiple technical challenges was, “no…Nov 11, 20221Nov 11, 20221
Chris WarkentinParsing SDP“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by…Nov 4, 2022Nov 4, 2022
Chris WarkentinPutting Your Story on a Medium PublicationI recently wrote some stories that received attention from various publications on Medium. Medium publications are similar to magazines in…Nov 3, 20221Nov 3, 20221
Chris WarkentinWhy I Love Writing Code in an InterviewI’ve already written about why I hate coding interviews so let me tell you why it’s more of a love-hate relationship. There are many…Nov 3, 20221Nov 3, 20221
