Comment by AlexeyBelov
10 hours ago
> Your next interview won't be testing your AI skills
Not that I disagree with your overall point, but have you interviewed recently? 90% of companies I interacted with required (!) AI skills, and me telling them how exactly I "leverage" it to increase my productivity.
I've done a couple flirty interviews and so far it hasn't come up. So take hope, it's not all bad.
Are they just looking for AI skills? If so that's terrifying.
I think most are looking for both.
AI/LLM knowledge without programming knowledge can make a mess.
Programming knowledge without AI/LLM knowledge can also make a mess.
> AI/LLM knowledge without programming knowledge can make a mess.
That makes sense.
> Programming knowledge without AI/LLM knowledge can also make a mess.
How? I'd imagine that most typically means continuing to program by hand. But even someone like that would probably know enough to not mindlessly let an LLM agent go to town.
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Probably, I think hand coding is going the way of the dodo and the ox cart.
Sorry but focusing on the hand coding part misses the whole picture and would derail the conversation. Comparisons like that are often dishonest.
Hiring someone who writes Rust with Claude but never written anything with it in their lives, never faced the edge cases, never took the wrong decisions feels naive to me. At the end of the day it's still a next token generator, an impressive one. It can hold context but not relate with anything outside that context. Someone needs to take accountability.
The usual LeetCode-ish tasks, often system design, but then deep AI usage. "I use Copilot" isn't going to fly at all, as far as I understand.
Are you allowed to leverage AI to answer the leetcode questions? Otherwise, it seems it is the interviewers who are behind the times!
What a time to be alive. I once got roasted in an interview because I said I would use Google if I didn't know something (in this context, the answer to a question that would easily be found in language and compiler documentation).
You are not alone. The silver lining is they show their true colors early.