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Lizzie Siegle

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Developer 🥑advocate @ Cloudflare⛅️🔥, twin, mixed, car-free, yimby. 💕#gsw🎾📚🚴‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍💻

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Lizzie Siegle

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Vibes were so good at chase center tonight!

*insert little women “women” meme*

May 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM

Lizzie Siegle

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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.

April 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM

Lizzie Siegle

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me: i want the andor episode scripts to RAG. surely they must be online

andor maker: (😭 but also he's right.)

April 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM

Lizzie Siegle

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

April 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM

Lizzie Siegle

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

April 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM

Lizzie Siegle

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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

April 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Lizzie Siegle

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

March 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM

Lizzie Siegle

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Tues vs Thurs AI meetups @ @cloudflare.social SF office

1st pic: 💃👸👯‍♀️👩‍🔧👩🏻‍💻
2nd: 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

March 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM

Lizzie Siegle

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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 🧵👩🏻‍💻

March 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM

Lizzie Siegle

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

March 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM

Lizzie Siegle

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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

March 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM

Lizzie Siegle

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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...

March 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM

Lizzie Siegle

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Hello #aibuilders meetup sf @ @cloudflare.social HQ

February 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM

Lizzie Siegle

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

February 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM

Lizzie Siegle

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Ty @cloudflare.social AI gateway 🫡

Meme of Steph Curry doing a no-look three-pointer in an all star game. His caption is "dev using AI gateway, knowing their AI app is running smoothly"

Nikola Jokic and other players are watching his shot go in. That caption is "Devs struggling w/ rate limits and slow response times."

The ball going in is captioned "Optimized API calls, caching, and cost savings"

February 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Lizzie Siegle

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

Mahomes getting squashed by eagles in Super Bowl

February 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM

Lizzie Siegle

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Trying to explain #devrel

Severance meme with subtitles that say "The work is mysterious and important"

January 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM

Lizzie Siegle

@lizziesiegle.com

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-...