Karel Zikmund

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Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation.

More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

I published 'ssh': a .NET tool that mimics OpenSSH 'ssh' (built with Tmds.Ssh!)
You can invoke it as 'dotnet ssh' after a tool install ('dotnet tool update -g ssh')
or with .NET 10 p6's new 'dnx' command run: 'dnx ssh'
@chethusk.bsky.social @jongalloway.bsky.social @zikicz.bsky.social @davidfowl.com

Some more C# 13 | Red Hat Developer Learn more about the new advanced features of C# 13 (part 2 of 2)

2nd (and final) C# 13 post covers 'ref struct' improvements, the new 'Lock' type, and [OverloadResolutionPriority] developers.redhat.com/articles/202... cc @jongalloway.bsky.social @zikicz.bsky.social

Tech Talks for Universities are back -- watch today 4/29 at 19:15 CEST

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C# 13 | Red Hat Developer Discover the new features of C# 13 (part 1 of 2)

Blog post on C# 13 params collections, partial properties/indexers, index access in object initializers and ref/unsafe in iterators and async methods developers.redhat.com/articles/202... @jongalloway.bsky.social @chethusk.bsky.social @zikicz.bsky.social @antonfrv.bsky.social @jaredpar.bsky.social

Yep, actively experimenting
karelz.github.io/ai-interviews/

So far, we had 2 interviews, with 4 more to be scheduled.

It is very different from what we envisioned - we need to finetune questions to not let candidates drown in debugging infra/env.

Oh, it was the magical setting in Notifications, darn ... my bad

Not too late. We're just getting started next week.

Using AI in interviews -- looking for volunteers for mock AI-enabled interviews.

If you are proficient in using AI in your daily work (job, hobby projects, school work), and you'd like to try to use them also during interview, ping me.

This is community-driven effort!

Just noticed that replies to my post didn't give me any notification 😮‼️
Am I missing some obvious setting somewhere? (like by default disabled DMs)

So, just because I work for Microsoft, all my community/private efforts are doomed to be bad? ... Interesting

Argh, I somehow missed all replies (!) and had DMs disabled. Double fail. Emberassing.

If you are still interested, please ping me (DM, or contacts on karelz.github.io). We are starting next week.

Well, candidates are "cheating" with AI. And given that AI is a useful developer tool (like calculator is for math), it is just natural evolution, isn't it?

Would you hire a mathematician who is refusing to use calculator?

Argh, I somehow missed all replies (!) and had DMs disabled. Double fail. Emberassing.

If you are still interested, please ping me (DM, or contacts on karelz.github.io). We are starting next week.

Argh, I somehow missed all replies (!) and had DMs disabled. Double fail. Emberassing.

If you are still interested, please ping me (DM, or contacts on karelz.github.io). We are starting next week.

This comment by Anders Hejlsberg on the choice of languages for TypeScript is worth reading. Spead that type of thinking! (And recognize the massive shift that Microsoft made)

Congrats duuuude!

😂😅

PM? Part-time Manager? ;)

Aspiring manager?

Both easily spotted. One on eyes. Both on answers and how they present them.

Don't they understand it is possible to spot them?
Do they hope interviewers will not notice?

The "fun" thing is my colleagues met cheaters over last half a year if not longer.
I didn't, until couple of weeks ago (and I interview a lot ... 150-200 per year)
And it is second instance since then ...

Sensitive responses into DM, I will keep them confidential / anonymized!

Poll time:

Would you consider using AI in interview, when it is explicitly forbidden?

If yes and if you were found out, how would you react?

I tried to challenge one such person at the end of the interview. They were prepared with aggressive attack and proofs at hand why they are not cheating.

Weird experience, won't do it again.

Now focused on embracing AI in interviews: karelz.github.io/ai-interviews

What do you do when you catch candidates cheating with AI during interviews? (when it is upfront forbidden)

When it is obvious, i.e. they have no clue what they write, why, or start parroting encyclopedic knowledge without saying why.

So, users will use .NET and expect us to do the heavy lifting ... sniff

Detailed info: karelz.github.io/ai-interviews/

If there is too high demand, we might start choosing participants - will be done in direct DMs.