I used to give the most boring, not-leetcode question, about how to lay out a minesweeper board of arbitrary size with an arbitrary number of mines (not any gameplay code, purely the initialization of the layout), and at least 95% of the candidates utterly tanked the interview. Most people apparently can’t code their way out of a paper bag.
In that way, I’m happy about ai - because it is better at everything than 90% of the candidates for junior roles (and given it’s so fast it can still probably beat even better developers through application of brute force).
But of course I have no clue how we will ever get another generation of “seniors” when we are freezing out all the poor new grads, since we don’t need them in their current state and no companies want to be the suckers to spend their time investing in them to mold them into seniors.
I used to give the most boring, not-leetcode question, about how to lay out a minesweeper board of arbitrary size with an arbitrary number of mines (not any gameplay code, purely the initialization of the layout), and at least 95% of the candidates utterly tanked the interview. Most people apparently can’t code their way out of a paper bag.
In that way, I’m happy about ai - because it is better at everything than 90% of the candidates for junior roles (and given it’s so fast it can still probably beat even better developers through application of brute force).
But of course I have no clue how we will ever get another generation of “seniors” when we are freezing out all the poor new grads, since we don’t need them in their current state and no companies want to be the suckers to spend their time investing in them to mold them into seniors.