Principled men do not become billionaires.

Touch grass

Between that and his behavior in this HN thread, looks like I'm done buying from Adafruit. Shame, they were decent.

This might be the most autistic thing I’ve read all week…

You spam that enough yet?

Feels like yet another solution in search of a problem.

All the same, looks like y’all are having fun working on it, and maybe some unforeseen usecase will bubble up.

Problem: I want to do things but I wanna do it in one step (prompt) instead of x (or sometimes unknown upfront number of) steps, most likely dealing with shitty websitse and distractions in the process.

Try to look at it from another angle, maybe you then can see that the web is a solution looking for a problem in a way. Didn't stop it from being a massive success.

I'd imagine there's a fair amount of folks with autism here. Nothing wrong with that, but it can lead to these narrower perspectives about certain social topics.

Right. It is not rational to assume that all human behaviour is rational.

How much of the article did you read? They were looking for a senior, with more than twice the experience the poster has. Being able to pump out algos is only part of the job.

While there a solution is clever, it’s not terribly maintainable and likely didn’t fit the bill.

Beyond that, things like soft skills matter for senior roles. The author can write, there’s no denying that, but we don’t know how well they can explain the why of their solution. It’s very likely the interviewers wanted more traditional functions that were unit-testable.

>While there a solution is clever, it’s not terribly maintainable and likely didn’t fit the bill.

Why invite him then?

>Beyond that, things like soft skills matter for senior roles.

Then talk. Ask him. Psychoanalysis of the solution of a stupid brain teaser will not answer your questions.