Blogger: most engineers are just vibe coders, real skills lie in fundamentals
ashishllm · x · 2026-09-19
A controversial take: tech jobs are easy now because most AI-era engineers are just vibe coders who fumble on architecture and tradeoffs. The author says interviews should go deep — LoRA rank/alpha, RAG hallucination debugging, inference optimization, safe deploy/rollback, WebRTC, STT/TTS, latency tuning. His advice: be the engineer LLMs still need infra for.
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