ai-driven engineer interviews
How we build things is changing, and has changed, since October 2025.
Interviews for software engineers have always been pretty crap, especially the code-test side, and I know that people now 'cheat' on them a lot by using LLMs/AI tooling in another window to answer Qs.
We should embrace it; it's part of engineering and solving the problem. We just need to make sure the user is still responsible in how they use it - Do they know what will lead to good changes, will they keep it on the rails, do they understand what needs to be solved, are they writing good prompts, using skills well, and stopping it from processing sensitive data? The list doesn't stop there, either.
The skills are still the same: architecture, design, code quality, automated testing, etc., but how we get there is different, and the evaluations don't work. They never did, IMO.
I tried solving this with aismith but got lazy (scared) with distribution.
Companies don't know how to hire engineers right now, and it's solvable. It just needs to be built by somebody who understands what these skills look like in this era of change.