I was working my way through [this paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23632) earlier and it seems as if since 3 days humanity ***maybe*** understands why `softmax` attention parametrization works better than linear (even though it's not used in many models anymore because it's expensive to run.)

So I don't find it crazy that the AI companies look to hire talent that can actually address open issues like that, instead of using inference. For non-ai tech companies though - yeah, inevitable.

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Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

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Honestly, this was inevitable. If companies expect engineers to use AI on the job, why pretend interviews should be done solo with pen and paper? That said, there's a real risk of hiring people who can prompt but can’t debug. Maybe interviews should evolve to test how you use AI not just whether you can get it to spit out a solution.