[Rant] Whats with every application on the freelance section getting 20+ applications within a few minutes these days? - page 2

 
Alain Verleyen #:

MQL is not C++. They have some things in common, but they are very different practically. Anyway, it's an other topic.

If you want to be a successful freelancer, you have to work very hard. It has always been the case, but it's even harder nowadays in the AI era.

Rantings and complaints will not help at all.

C++ has many different versions and standards as you know yourself.

Mql 4 and 5 are very close to C++ 11 and C++ 14. Again it is obviously not 1:1 and raw C++ is a bit harder to handle in comparison but it's def C++.

 
Vladislav Boyko #:

I don't have any data, but I suspect there are a lot of people using automation for auto-apply. It would be great if MQ paid more attention to this and imposed penalties for using automation, which, by the way, is prohibited by the rules.

That is most likely what is happening, hence I suspect OpenClaw as it is easier to circumvent mql guidelines that are yet to catch on to it
 
Vladislav Boyko #:

You don't need a script for this. You can legally receive push notifications in your mobile app.


This only pushes notifications for applications that you have already applied to. It does not notify you of new posts added. Hence the need for the script (which does not violate any rules as it only checks if there is a new table added to the /freelance in the past x minutes). Very helpful
 
Monwabisi Balani #:

I see. Do you have any examples of something a bit more complex you found the AI to be particularly good at?

Also how much is it context aware of how markets work (I'm assuming since its gen ai, surely it should be somewhat capable of considering market / price action specific information outside of just being a coding buddy)

Example: would it be able to recognize / after you tell it, would it be able to solve a slippage problem?

Say you are building a scalping EA of sorts and it's very sensitive to capturing specific entry levels. 

on startegy tester this would be very difficult to account for blindly. same applies to code logic, at least in the building stage.

So would it be able to recognise that it needs to account for the trades that will go in x ticks too late // spread suddenly being too wide to capture a profitable short term trade?

We're getting a bit off-topic here. If you start a dedicated MQL5 Lite thread, I'll be happy to chime back in.
 
Vladislav Boyko #:
Perhaps, by the way, it would make sense to reduce the maximum number of job applications per day. So that freelancers at least read the assignment before applying, instead of applying to everything, which, in my personal opinion, is spam.
People criticize the token system a lot, but it's likely the only thing that can save us from this oversaturation honestly. Because only allowing x amount of applications per day likely will still leave the concerntration of contracts in the hands of the applicants that have 100+ jobs completed
 
Ryan L Johnson #:
We're getting a bit off-topic here. If you start a dedicated MQL5 Lite thread, I'll be happy to chime back in.
I was not aware the rules of engagement in conversation are so rigid. Apologies
 
Monwabisi Balani #:
I was not aware the rules of engagement in conversation are so rigid. Apologies
I'm not a Moderator. This is merely a Freelance applications topic, and I have no desire to hijack it.
 
Monwabisi Balani #:
This only pushes notifications for applications that you have already applied to. It does not notify you of new posts added. Hence the need for the script (which does not violate any rules as it only checks if there is a new table added to the /freelance in the past x minutes). Very helpful
These are notifications about new jobs, I've been using this for years.
 
Monwabisi Balani #:
I was not aware the rules of engagement in conversation are so rigid. Apologies

It's not about any rule, it's about common sense and be users friendly.

Your topic name is clearly about Freelance section application, not about how AI or C++ is behaving. It can't become a big catch-all discussion.

 
Monwabisi Balani #:
That is most likely what is happening, hence I suspect OpenClaw as it is easier to circumvent mql guidelines that are yet to catch on to it

I've seen some stupid AI-generated scripts on GitHub that automatically submit a template application when a new job comes up.

Let me repeat that everything I say about “automation” is my guess; I don’t have any reliable information.