{"id":25,"date":"2026-05-07T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/?p=25"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:14:10","slug":"faster-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/2026\/05\/07\/faster-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster! Faster!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having played with LLMs for a few years now I\u2019ve had various stages of appreciation for its efficiency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tell me some jokes.. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You coded a debugging nightmare. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hey this is kinda neat. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Think for me. I\u2019m too lazy to look it up. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spawn five of yourself and wire it up. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It happened so fast. For me, tool use has been the most eye opening. To see <em>Claude computer use<\/em>, review functionality, that it just implemented, by itself, by literally clicking around the iOS app it just built, is astounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I dove into an article on Sherwood News, <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/tech\/use-ai-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Test time<\/a>. It made me think about hiring the best people for tomorrow. Imagine you are looking at candidates.  How can one justify hiring someone who has no experience with the potential of LLMs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of simply talking through strategy, some CMOs, investors, and operators are now being asked to use AI tools live \u2014 or during a tight take-home window \u2014 to create something in front of interviewers. A number of other firms do the same, while Nicole DeTommaso, a principal at Harlem Capital, says that anecdotally, she\u2019s seen practically every potential candidate looking to join a venture capital firm being asked to show their prowess with AI coding tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nicdetommaso.beehiiv.com\/p\/in-2026-vc-interviews-require-this\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DeTommaso wrote<\/a>&nbsp;that one candidate was asked to build an AI agent that could produce automated research about industries within a working week that could reliably brief partners on a sector before they invested. Another needed to use the likes of Claude Code and Codex to vibe code a dashboard to show information about portfolio companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou are not told which tools to use or how to go about it. You are just expected to figure it out,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAnd increasingly, what you can actually show in an interview matters more than what\u2019s on your resume.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At an individual contributor level it seems risky to hire someone who would be doing things \u201cthe old way\u201d. It\u2019s like signing a flat footed defence man in the world of Cale Makars. Speed is the game now. And at a leader level, Arguably it applies too where the best managers should excel at delegating to LLMs. It\u2019s easier than ever to test and prototype. At a fraction of the cost before AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having played with LLMs for a few years now I\u2019ve had various stages of appreciation for its efficiency. It happened so fast. For me, tool use has been the most eye opening. To see Claude computer use, review functionality, that it just implemented, by itself, by literally clicking around the iOS app it just built, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverng.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}