Dean Didion

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“Engineering Manager | Agile Mentor | AI Developer | DevOps Enthusiast | Building the Future with ML Ops Expertise”

Halle, GermanyJoined October 2024

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DDDean Didionsurestride.hashnode.devJan 31 · 4 min read

NLP - Before the “Interesting Stuff”

Most NLP articles jump straight to the fun parts: intent detection, embeddings, transformers, LLMs, etc. But before a model can figure out what a piece of text means, there’s often a forgotten about phase; the small preprocessing steps that sha...

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DDDean Didionsurestride.hashnode.devMay 2, 2025 · 4 min read

🧠 Prompt Injection in AI Recruiting: A Cheeky Experiment with My Cover Letter Generator

Lately, I’ve been building a simple AI-supported cover letter generator — the kind of tool that lets you paste your CV and job description and spits out a nicely-worded, tailored cover letter. Honestly though? I have mixed feelings about cover letter...

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DDDean Didionsurestride.hashnode.devApr 15, 2025 · 2 min read

Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Teams

Over the past year, we’ve seen a new style of programming gain traction: vibe coding. It’s not a formal methodology. It’s a term born on the internet (most of it negative like hack-coding) — and is intepreted as those who rely on LLMs like ChatGPT or...

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DDDean Didionsurestride.hashnode.devMar 28, 2025 · 3 min read

It's time to rethink those take-home tests...

The Problem with Traditional Take-Home Tests I've recently read a lot of opinions and posts about take-home coding tests for job applications. While these tests aim to evaluate a candidate's technical skills, they often impose significant hardships a...

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DDDean Didionsurestride.hashnode.devFeb 22, 2025 · 3 min read

PR Ettiquette : my pet likes, hates

it’s time to talk about Pull Requests (PRs). I enjoy PRs, as they can tell a story. Good formulated PRs leave the reader knowing what you did, why you did it and how. Try not to look at them as a necessary evil, but as a fantastic opportunity for lea...

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NLP - Before the “Interesting Stuff”

🧠 Prompt Injection in AI Recruiting: A Cheeky Experiment with My Cover Letter Generator

Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Teams

It's time to rethink those take-home tests...

PR Ettiquette : my pet likes, hates

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Dean Didion's blogs

Recently published

NLP - Before the “Interesting Stuff”

🧠 Prompt Injection in AI Recruiting: A Cheeky Experiment with My Cover Letter Generator

Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Teams

It's time to rethink those take-home tests...

PR Ettiquette : my pet likes, hates