Comment by dlivingston
5 days ago
We do not interview for this nor care about it, despite using agentic and code complete tooling heavily. It's not a deep technical skill like C++ that requires years of hands-on experience. Spend a few weeks getting comfortable with Claude Code and you're probably at about parity with most devs. That seems like sort of a red flag to me to have that as a job requirement.
This has been my thought all along, not sure why I don't see it more. I'm not scared about being left behind, none of the tooling looks crazy enough that a few weeks of dedicated learning wouldn't catch me up.