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Generally the point of hiring is to determine someone's skills, which is a lot more standardizable across an entire industry than compatibility with a particular person is. This is how something like Triplebyte can exist.


Good relationships also take skills, such as: romance, understanding your spouse's point of view and what matters to them, maintaining the right equlibrum of intimacy and independence, being reliable, clearly expressing your own needs and making it emotionally safe for your partner to express theirs, conflict resolution, facing unpleasant truths, teamwork, respecting consent not just in sex, sexual communication, compromising on life plans, attachment style, staying mentally healthy, keeping the magic alive, etc.

You can probably test for those skills. I'm curious how.

Of course, you also need compatibility. But I have a hunch that's both overrated and easier to check for on a date.


Triplebyte is doing the dating app equivalent of criminal background checks. It abjectly failed to find a match for me (despite passing the programming eval with flying colors) because none of the matches resulted in any sparks, to use the dating term of art.




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