Vibe job hunting
I was listening to the latest All-In Podcast earlier. Great epsiode. Loads of insightful commentary about the Trump tarrifs, Google's AI workflow design issues, and Elon & DOGE. The show often reminds me of the weekly sales calls I used to be on when I worked in enterprise software sales. Well anyway, hot off the back of yesterday's vibe coding blog post, it occurred to me that perhaps I could use some AI in my job search. I was thinking to perhaps write a few relevant blog posts. Perhaps Grok might have some ideas.
Here was my first question:
Hey Grok, I'm looking to get back into the European tech startup scene. I have a lot of experience in US startups and 10 years ago I was working in the European tech scene, across the continent, but things have changed since I've been gone. You have access to the latest conversations on Twitter/X which gives you an interesting and relevant perspective. What do you think, broadly speaking, are the main topics of concern for European tech startups? And can you help me identify some areas I could position myself towards, by writing blog posts, for prospective employers to become interested in hiring me?
Here was my second question:
Thanks Grok, that was a really excellent first attempt, with lots of interesting angles. Reminds me of my previous role in technical enterprise software sales. It seems a bit too enterprise software / startup strategy for me as I have moved into a career more focused on software development. Here's a blog post I wrote yesterday which might be more directionally aligned with my goals. I'll also post a link to a blog post that talks about some of my recent development projects. Could you read both of these, including the linked articles, get a bit inspired, and reformulate your previous answer with this new direction?
Grok's code snippets made me laugh. It actually did read my blog and had based it's code on some of minebut sort of had gone hilariously high level. And some of the stuff it was saying was clearly made up, but I thought that on the whole it actually was quite good at outlining some vague thoughts and approaches. I was particulary impressed at how it morphed it's answer directionally using the updated question.
I'm still getting used to using these AIs. It's very different to searching using a web browser. But perhaps we are still at the stage of trying to figure out where and how AI can be inserted into our workflows. That's a very different type of workflow and solution design than I am used to, but it could be kind of interesting.
Now you'll have to read the answers yourself to see what you think. While I don't think the All-in guys need to be worried about being replaced anyime soon, I was actually really impressed with Grok's answers. It probably won't be long before we will all have our very own All-In podcast gang in our pockets to help us with big difficult life changing moves. It's kind of mindblowing. #