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aesthesiayesterday at 7:09 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't think unreadable skills implies proper engineering at all. It's just as or more likely that they're the result of a blind iterative process with no clear improvement signal. (And whether iterative RL over a set of evals is actually proper engineering here is another question...)


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TeMPOraLyesterday at 7:12 PM

> And whether iterative RL over a set of evals is actually proper engineering here is another question...

I'd put it like this: regardless of the merit of how they're applied, it would at least demonstrate possession of the advanced skills expected of experienced software engineers.