@JustinLau04: Half the engineers you just hired are sh*t. AI has made it impossible to tell. So we fixed this:
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A tweet from Justin Lau claims AI has made it difficult to evaluate engineers' real abilities and points to a solution to fix this hiring problem.
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Half the engineers you just hired are sh*t. AI has made it impossible to tell.
So we fixed this: https://t.co/fQBJtIcEMk
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