The anti-AI assessment
A $100-an-hour role at an AI-education startup that brags about doing things differently gates itself behind an hour-long test that blocks copy-paste and forbids AI; Juan screenshots one question to Gemini, prices the hour, and closes the tab.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 11:16 (la hipocresía, nombrada)
- ↳ video diary @ 10:57 (la decisión de cerrar)
- ↳ video diary @ 11:33 (la profecía del papel y la cámara)
Midnight LinkedIn surfaces a dream posting: an AI-education startup, TikTok-style classes taught by historical figures, $100 an hour, roughly $200,000 a year ▸ 8:16. The job description declares “hacemos las cosas diferentes”, we’re disrupting education ▸ 9:17. Then the application: a one-hour assessment that forbids AI, blocks copying the questions out, and blocks pasting answers in ▸ 10:13.
The workaround lasts one round: screenshot the question, feed it to Gemini, get the answer, and discover it must now be retyped by hand ▸ 10:33. At 2:30 a.m., the triage is instant: “no vale la pena gastar una hora copiando la respuesta que me dio Gemini manualmente… cerrar, y ya” ▸ 10:57.
The verdict gets its word: “se me hace hipócrita que digan ‘hacemos las cosas diferentes’ y después lo pongan a uno a responder preguntas sin poder copiar ni pegar nada” ▸ 11:16. A company selling AI-taught classes, screening for employees certified free of AI. And the reductio, delivered as prophecy: keep going down this road and applications will require a camera pointed at you writing answers on paper ▸ 11:33.
el filtro no mide el trabajo; mide la tolerancia al ritual →
The deeper defect the teardown exposes: the assessment doesn’t measure the job. The job, presumably, is done with every tool available, that’s the disruption being sold. A filter that measures unassisted recall selects for patience with ritual, not for output, and it repels precisely the applicants whose time is worth the salary on offer. Walking away from $200k after ten minutes only looks reckless until you price the signal: a company that burns your hour before hiring you has told you the exchange rate…
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no entry has continued this idea yet: the arc is still open