'Would you hire this person or take $300k of GPT Astra?' sparks debate on the new engineering bar
dejavucoder · x · 2026-09-06
The Ethan Ding proposes a provocative new hiring bar for engineers: "would you rather have this person, or personally get $300k in GPT Astra credits" — framing AI as directly comparable to junior engineering hires.
dejavucoder adds that humans are heavily bottlenecked by attention span and context-switching ability; you only get room to go slow if your business doesn't require you to operate at the frontier. The exchange touches on AI's deep impact on engineering employment and human ways of working.
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