🛠️ Career Strategy

The One Interview Question to Rule Them All

If you are evaluating someone, whether to hire them, invest in them, or bet on them, ignore their credentials and experience. You only need to ask and answer one question:

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🤖 AI Tactic

AI’s Kryptonite = Complex Sets of Interlocking Rules

This is less a tactic and more of a pattern I’ve seen while using AI daily for the 18 months, but I think it’s interesting nonetheless.

Large-language models (LLMs) feel like magic when they dash off a crisp email or summarize an entire textbook. But ask them to calculate how many invoices are overdue if the interest compounds quarterly and payment terms vary by client and they confidently fall flat on their face.

Think of a brilliant conversationalist who dazzles at dinner but can’t follow a complicated board game: plenty of style, shaky on substance. The issue is that they don’t actually understand the rules. They’re guessing the next move based on vibes, not logic.

NYU AI professor Gary Marcus calls this “fluency without fidelity,” while Meta’s Yann LeCun jokes it’s like having our impulsive “System 1” brain on overdrive with no calm “System 2” to double-check the facts. The bottom line is that AI models spit out confident-sounding nonsense frequently when the task demands step-by-step logic.

This is AI’s core flaw: it predicts what sounds right, not what is right. No internal model of how concepts interlock. No working memory that can hang onto complex relationships across pages of data. No sense of when to shut up and say “I don’t know.” Which is why it can draft a decent FAQ, but will hallucinate numbers on a tax return or invent a clause in your 100-page contract. Until we graft actual reasoning onto these eloquent parrots, know that hallucinations will remain commonplace. Check their work!

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🧠 Curiosity Corner

Youth in Revolt… in Nepal

I haven’t heard a lot of Americans talking about this, but it’s a wild story. Protests erupted on September 8 following the government's ban of 26 social media platforms. The demonstrations, led primarily by GenZ and spread through platforms like TikTok, quickly escalated into a movement against systemic corruption, poor governance, and elite privilege.

The protests turned violent, with over 70 people killed and many more injured in clashes with police. Protesters set fire to government buildings, including the parliament, and the homes of politicians.

The protestors ousted the former prime minister and “elected” Nepal’s next leader in a manner unprecedented for any electoral democracy, via virtual poll on Discord, an American chat platform used mainly by online gamers. Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki took the oath of office, promising to fight against corruption.

💼 Job Board

💸 Running out of runway? Not any more!

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That’s it for this week.

-Rahul from The DesAI Digest

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