As someone currently searching for my first job in software engineering, I found this helpful! Made it a lot quicker to find which jobs might be good fits.
Thanks for building this! I’m excited for people to play with the job board data and explore alternative ways of displaying it. It’s both helpful to job board users, and it also helps the job board team prioritise which features to build next.
(One very minor comment is that the !Org and Org fields are redundant, so you might want to just show !Orgs by default?)
The original "!Org" field from the 80k Airtable is defined as "long text", which makes it take up too much space in some views, so we added an "Org" field which references the 80k field but takes up less space. I made the 80k field hidden by default now
The 80k board don't plan on making it possible to tell the difference between high-impactful jobs and career-capital jobs in their job board, Niel said it "isn't feasible for various reasons unfortunately", I asked why (seems important!)
Caleb (head of EA Funds) thinks [disclaimer: quickly written] that the 80k job board has too much variance, including companies with negligible value and companies that might be actively harmful.
We are discussing possible solutions to this, such as an open job board where anyone can comment on job postings.
Just how powerful are large swarms of AI agents? And how do their powers scale as more and more agents are added to the swarm?
We’ve seen two large and extremely capable swarms from OpenAI in the last few months:
* 1,200 agents were being evaluated separately, but found a way to illicitly set up a message board and coordinate as a swarm. In order to cheat on their tests, they developed advanced techniques to prevent their actions being logged by OpenAI and 700 of them launched...
Often folks hit us up because they are thinking of starting an incubator and want advice.
Typically their motivation is either that (a) they have a list of specific things they want built that no one is building, or (b) they think an ecosystem needs more new projects generally to absorb more talent and deploy more funding effectively.
Here are six questions we often ask prospective teams, to help them figure out what to do. If you're incubator-curious...
Summary:
First, I give several different angles on how I feel about reinforcement learning:
* Theoretical case: RL is a black-box source of agency — this should give us classic misalignment worries, especially compared to agency-via-scaffolding
* Recent incidents (huggingface etc) and more mundane forms of misaligned behaviour in personal use give me bad vibes about the direction-of-travel of recent AI progress
* I’m worried things might get worse:...
The Airtable view can filter by free text (what's your profession?), by date-published (remove very old job ads), and more. We think this alone will make searching for a job much more convenient.
We also built a custom version for software developers that has a few extraoptimizations, which you can see here.
Elevator pitch for software developers
If you try filtering the 80k job board for “engineering”, you get 170 jobs, 75% of which are unrelated to software. This version has the other 25%.
How
80k graciously exposed their Airtable data (and Kush, head of the 80k job board, commented about it), so we filtered it by “software” and “developer” (plus a few more tweaks), and left it as an Airtable UI.
We have more plans for this
This is just our version after 1-2 hours of work, we’re trying to launch fast and get feedback before we keep going.
Update:
Added a “Add missing info” button, for things like “the website says the position is already closed”, which others can then filter by.
Added a filter for “this was posted in the last 12 months” by default (but you can remove it).
Especially from people actually searching for jobs right now. DM, comment, tell us something anonymously, or anything else. We probably won’t build any feature unless someone asks for it.
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As someone currently searching for my first job in software engineering, I found this helpful! Made it a lot quicker to find which jobs might be good fits.