If I'm being interviewed by a bot, I see no reason not to send my own bot to represent me. It levels the playing field.

I’ll probably start building an AI agent to sit in these AI bot interviews

I did exactly that and open sourced the API for it. https://joshuacurry.dev/chatjc

As an interviewer who does all his interviews himself, I experience this already. I'll ask questions and candidates will answer them reading from chat gpt output. It's very frustrating and clearly the start of an arms race that must end in requiring face to face interviews and on site employment

Interested to know: when you experience that, have you addressed it directly and said that you have an issue with it, and want them to stop? If so, do they try to pretend they aren't doing it? Or do they apologize and own up to it? Or what? I've been on the interviewer-side, but haven't run into that. I would absolutely see that kind of thing as an ethics violation; like paying someone else to pretend to be you for the interview process.

Personally, any time I have ever been the interviewee, I write up notes for things to cover during an interview, or list a few common problems, etc. I've dealt with in the past, but I would strongly prefer to share my screen with them so they can see I'm not getting "assistance" from an LLM or whatever. I just personally get very, very stressed when I interview for a job. Having a simple set of notes helps keep me on track with covering XYZ.

I have not addressed it in the call, expecting the interviewee to just say "no I'm not!" I have asked my HR department to state clearly that any usage of AI during an interview is an instant fail, and I think I'm going to start my future interviews with the same.

I'm now leaning heavily on recommendations from existing resources as my preferred interview strategy

Which bot would you trust to represent you though.

Setting aside the tax discussion for a moment:

> In the end, the “shortcut” had cost her more time than if she’d just done the work herself from the start.

I had this same opinion on AI IDE Copilots about a year and a half ago. They were too nascent, and writing code manually saved me hours of debugging their buggy code recommendations.

Fast forward - today—IDE Copilots have grown leaps and bounds in its quality of outputs. They have real utility now.

It's important to note that - "This is the worst AI agents will ever be, it will only get better moving forward."

I'm confident these tools will keep improving and eventually create net productivity gains, including for the Excel use case you mentioned.

Toby - Bookmark and organize browser tabs

Pocket/Instapaper - To save articles for offline use

Video Speed Controller - Play videos at faster playback speed, time is precious

Send to Kindle - To send articles to Kindle

International movie suggestions:

Soorarai Potru - An army man tries to start a Low Cost Carrier Aircraft company

Sardar Udham - Jallianwala Bagh Massacre on Non-Violent protestors

Jai Bhim - IMDB's most recent top rated film.

Introduction to Algorithms -Thomas H. Cormen

Grokking Algorithms -Aditya Bhargava

Cracking the Coding Interview Book by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

Any advise is appreciated!

Thanks for your review, I would highly appreciate it.