Comment by alexpotato

Been doing a lot of interviewing lately.

Despite not having written code for about 6 months due to using Claude etc, I've surprised myself with how much the "muscle memory" of leetcode etc has come back to me.

I say this b/c I think the veterans with years of coding, debugging etc experience can just pick back up the skills they need even if they're a bit rusty.

The junior folks on the other hand, I'm not so sure. Friends of mine that hire straight out of college are saying that a combination of going to college during COVID + LLMs + "cloud is all you need" has resulted in juniors who don't know how to solve problems nor architect basic software.

I guess we are all on some kind of chart where the slope of losing the experienced people who know what's going on and AI getting so good we don't need people are going to intersect at some point. And that intersection may be later than is good for society and engineering overall.