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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 07/05/2025

Vibes were so good at chase center tonight! *insert little women “women” meme*

Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 29/04/2025

a problem of their own creation--AI startup used AI to blindly filter 10k applicants down to 200 candidates, 10 made it to the final round, and 1 passed when they wanted to hire 5

Reddit post on cscareerquestions:
We hired 1 intern out of 10K applicants
I work for a prominent growing AI startup that most people have heard of. I need to share something that blew my mind from our recent internship hiring round. Our goal was to hire 5 AI engineering and data science interns for the summer.

We got freaking 10,000 applications for our summer internship program. TEN THOUSAND. After screening all that mess (using some AI tool I admit to sort / filter) we narrowed it down to around 200 people who seemed qualified enough for take-home coding challenges.

Want to know the crazy part? Out of those 200 challenges, barely 10 people made it to the final interview round. And we ended up making just ONE offer when we wanted to hire 5 people.

What was the dealbreaker? Almost nobody could explain their own damn code when we asked them about it. Like 99% of these candidates just vibe coded their way through the take-home challenge (let's be real - they used AI) without understanding what the hell they were submitting. I literally asked one candidate why they used a certain Python package and they had no idea what it did.

On the on-site, we had to reject 9/10 candidates. Most of them when they got to the onsite just couldn't pass the bar.

Part of the reason why we hired the one candidate that passed was because he showed some honesty. A few people in the hiring panel said that the candidate admitted that he had seen one or two of the questions on LeetCode / Interview Query. So they apparently asked him a different question and he was thoughtful about explaining the solution even though he missed getting one of them 100% right.

So here's my PSA to anyone applying for tech jobs: Use AI all you want, but make sure you actually understand the code you're submitting. If you can't explain your approach or debug issues without AI holding your hand, you're gonna crash and burn in any decent technical interview.

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 24/04/2025

me: i want the andor episode scripts to RAG. surely they must be online andor maker: (😭 but also he's right.)

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 06/04/2025

brb changing 1 line of code to update my LLM to Llama 4 Scout in my Workers app

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 05/04/2025

Learning and laughs re data, visuals, python, AI, and LaunchDarkly with @dianedotdev.bsky.social at #orlandocodecamp #orlandocc

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 05/04/2025

Talking MCP (of course), genAI app limitations, @genaicollective.bsky.social , and more with @cloudflare.social startup program Lamatic AI cofounder and cto Aman Sharma #orlandocodecamp #orlandocc

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 30/03/2025

Car-free great highway showing off as usual feat car-free JFK for good measure

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 28/03/2025

Tues vs Thurs AI meetups @ @cloudflare.social SF office 1st pic: 💃👸👯‍♀️👩‍🔧👩🏻‍💻 2nd: 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 19/03/2025

Haven't filled out your March Madness bracket yet🏀⛹️‍♀️? Here's how I used OpenAI, SerpApi, && @cloudflare.social to roast🍗 my bracket (or if it's empty, it'll help you fill out your empty bracket) Test it out x view code in comments 🧵👩🏻‍💻

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 17/03/2025

#nvidiagtc2025 bound! South Bay/SJ people, say hi 🌊 👋

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 07/03/2025

Stateful Agents meetup happening rn @ @cloudflare SF w/ Letta AI cofounders @sarahwooders.bsky.social @charlespacker.bsky.social as they build a stateful agent live on Letta

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 04/03/2025

March newsletter🌸 finally out📥 feat sf/nyc events, musings, meetups, articles, chance for a free ticket to Arize AI Observe Conf in June 🔥 lizziepika.substack.com/p/in-march-w...

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 22/02/2025

Best friyay night hosting software engineer trivia w/ signalfire vc @cloudflare.social OpenAI and @launchdarkly.bsky.social

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 13/02/2025

ty Cloudflare ai gateway for stopping my models from burning through tokens

Mahomes getting squashed by eagles in Super Bowl

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 07/01/2025

January newsletter is out! 💌 - lots of tech events in sf && nyc - some github repos && articles📖 i found interesting - win a latent space pod tee 👚 - congrats arthur for winning the google home 🏡mini - some musings ✌️ lizziepika.substack.com/p/there-are-...

"There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't met yet" - William Butler Yeats

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 11/12/2024

Probably my coldest run views ever, hello Vancouver x NeurIPS 2024

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 02/12/2024

Obsessed with the Monterey bay aquarium (particularly jellyfish)

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 11/11/2024

when developers talk about transformers

I love the Smiths 500 days of summer meme. The top image is Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character saying "I love Transformers" while Zooey Deschanel's character says "me too." The bottom image is the same image, but his character has a picture of Transformers Optimus Prime with him and her character has an image of Transformer Neural Networks

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 05/11/2024

San Francisco, vote #yesOnK and #YesOnL for the @greathighwaypark.bsky.social (and to fund the bus)

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 05/11/2024

Photogenic Daniel Lurie voting at SF city hall this morning

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 24/10/2024

If you see this, post a bridge

Golden Gate Bridge sunset from Crissy field

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 23/10/2024

SF VOTERS—This November, your vote could mean the difference in crucial local races in SF🌁 Supervisor + mayoral races could be decided by just a few hundred votes in ranked choice voting. So, here’s my voter guide (Yes on K @greathighwaypark.bsky.social) ⤵️ lizziepika.notion.site/Lizzie-s-202...

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Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com · 22/05/2023