Well its been my experience that developers using AI are ahead, it obviously tool you want to use, also I don’t think it make sense to let engineers to try to write code in interview. I’ve been using ai for a while and I would not pass any any coding interview, I don’t even know how to write code anymore by hand, but I know very well what I want and how I want it. So my cookbook on how to hire is as follows:
1) look for opensource software, hunt ppl who been doing software for a while ideally before the era of AI, you are looking for ppl who had expirience before the ai tools
2) once you find someone look for skill, if you consider work good get in touch
3) if engineer replies get the technical stuff out of him, you want to know he has theoretical base and it matches what you saw on his past work
4) the important part, get out of him what tools he uses. That is for me single most telling thing. If answers opus, gpt55 high or whatever is currently best you have candidate
5) last step is to understand if he wants to sell you ai slop or willing to actually work, services such as hubstuff helps with that
- you have to value architecture skills, strong foundation in software, ego is not always bad as long as it is healthy amount, and open minded person, keeping up with latest trends is winner
Emotionally attached … no, but damm I would not want to write code by hand again. I stand behind principles and years of development, so if enough time spent with ai on a task I would be happy to defend its quality, as I believe newcomers/juniors will try as well so I guess expected?
My thoughts exactly. I think he is well positioned to see edge of ai tech as the money he spent (if allocated well) could give him bit more insights. Although questionoble how much he is still able with his background to understand, I don’t think he is as much engineer as he was used to be
Excatly, further more it really depends on who is using it and how value is compared not $. Senior engineers growing without ai will probably deliver 10x in value then ppl who just found out about ai yesterday. Doesn’t matter how much you spent dolar wise
I’m really looking forward to see non contaminated benchmarks. In this space its obvious that every day is just another day of a race. Cross fingers we get better opus for lower price
1) look for opensource software, hunt ppl who been doing software for a while ideally before the era of AI, you are looking for ppl who had expirience before the ai tools 2) once you find someone look for skill, if you consider work good get in touch 3) if engineer replies get the technical stuff out of him, you want to know he has theoretical base and it matches what you saw on his past work 4) the important part, get out of him what tools he uses. That is for me single most telling thing. If answers opus, gpt55 high or whatever is currently best you have candidate 5) last step is to understand if he wants to sell you ai slop or willing to actually work, services such as hubstuff helps with that
- you have to value architecture skills, strong foundation in software, ego is not always bad as long as it is healthy amount, and open minded person, keeping up with latest trends is winner