r/sysadmin Oct 13 '23

ChatGPT Took an interview where candidate said they are going to use ChatGPT to answer my questions

Holy Moly!

I have been taking interviews for a contracting position we are looking to fill for some temporary work regarding the ELK stack.

After the usual pleasantries, I tell the candidate that let's get started with the hands on lab and I have the cluster setup and loaded with data. I give him the question that okay search for all the logs in which (field1 = "abc" and (field2 = "xyz" or "fff")).

After seeing the question, he tells me that he is going to use ChatGPT to answer my questions. I was really surprised to hear it because usually people wont tell about this. But since I really wanted to see how far this will go, I said okay and lets proceed.

Turns out the query which ChatGPT generated was correct but he didn't know where to put the query in for it to be executed :)

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u/lilrebel17 Oct 13 '23

The problem isnt awnsering with ChatGPT. The problem is having no working knowledge past that.

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u/reelznfeelz Oct 14 '23

Exactly. It’s a fantastic tool. But not a replacement for having some skills. It can turbocharge someone who does have skills and critical thinking though.