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📣 thatjoeoverthr

Is this take-home a scam?


Is this take-home a scam?


  👤 thatjoeoverthr Accepted Answer ✓
A Y-Combinator backed company, AutoAce AI, sent me this "take home" unsolicited, in which they ask for what appears to be a complete, "production ready", deployed internal tool. They want completed source for the service, and to have the "applicant" let them run large batches against it.

I can't tell if it's a deliberate hustle or slop. They attached a small test set with obviously incorrect labels, so I suspect the entire thing may be Claude-slop (it won't be able to label the audio itself).

Is this normal?