Legacy Companies Start Requiring AI Experience
bennash · x · 2026-07-13
The core of this post is a contrast: last week, a company the author interviewed with was explicitly "anti-AI," simply because "we are an old company." Yet today, for a developer role, a 138-year-old company explicitly required AI experience.
The author's takeaway is that corporate attitudes toward AI are rapidly polarizing: transitioning from using "legacy company" status as an excuse to avoid AI, to treating AI experience as a hiring threshold.
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