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Job seeker calls for ban on 'ghost' interviews that harvest data for AI

Her experience with an AI interviewer has prompted Charlie Maclean to launch a petition to Parliament explicitly banning advertisements for jobs that do not exist.

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Telltale: load-test an LLM's position before you ship it

This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge Telltale load-tests an LLM's position before you ship it. Paste a real multi-turn transcript — the kind where a reviewer leans on the model…

  • Telltale assesses LLM's position under social pressure
  • Grading system scores transcripts on hold depth, evidence retention, etc.
  • Demo shows model scored 20.5/100 and fell into fabricated under load band

FRIEND.OS: An AI Memory That Remembers What Was Waiting for What

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built I built FRIEND.OS , a local-first AI memory system for a close friend who tends to remember individual…

  • FRIEND.OS is a local-first AI memory system for a close friend
  • Remembers relationships between actions, like "do X after Y"
  • Detects forgotten connections and proactive reminders

Turning a labour law into tested TypeScript: what an AI pair taught me about legal code

I run a small free site of UAE pay and labour calculators. I'm not a lawyer, and most of the code was written with Claude Code (Anthropic's coding agent) while I directed it.

  • UAE end of service gratuity calculation is complex with multiple legal articles
  • Separate legal rules from conventions in AI-powered gratuity calculators
  • Hand-crafted test cases ensure accuracy in AI-generated legal code

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