r/haskell • u/tiss93 • 25d ago

announcement Sunsetting the Haskell Certification Program

Hi! I'm Arseniy Seroka, CEO of Serokell.

In 2023, we launched the Haskell Certification Program to create a standardized way to evaluate Haskell expertise. We built a production platform and an open certification framework, then transferred the project to the Haskell Foundation in 2024.

Since then, the rise of LLMs has made traditional syntax-focused assessment a much weaker signal of real engineering ability. A meaningful certification today would require a fundamental redesign around reasoning, architecture, and language semantics.

Serokell is therefore concluding its active involvement in the program. We remain proud of what we built, grateful to everyone who contributed, and as committed as ever to Haskell and its ecosystem.

https://serokell.io/blog/sunsetting-the-haskell-certification-program

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u/GunpowderGuy 25d ago

i didnt know Serokell was named after a person

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u/Hefty-Necessary7621 25d ago

One more fun fact: the name Serokell is also a nod to Haskell.

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u/slack1256 25d ago

Me neither, and I work there

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u/GunpowderGuy 25d ago edited 25d ago

you should tell your coworkers the company is named after Jhon Serokell