There are many interesting and important points there. It's true, that writing code was never the biggest issue. Understanding what you're doing or what the code produced by AI does is crucial today. Especially, when you're hiring people. I don't know about you, but we already have a couple of cases, when candidates were seemingly using an AI assistant at interviews.
One interesting take away is the evolution of the coding challenge. It's not stated in this article explicitly, but we could all agree that take-home assignments are dead. However, some respondents are using code reviews as a challenge: they ask candidates to review the AI-generated code for bugs and possible improvements. This is a very interesting approach that could reveal, how people think about a problem.
So yeah, these two quotes summarize this article quite good:
everyone's debating whether AI will replace developers, the people actually hiring them are looking for the opposite of what you'd expect.
They don't want prompt engineers or AI evangelists. They want the developers who can clean up the mess AI creates.
and
you're worried about AI taking your job, stop.
#ai #hiring #culture
