If Coding Was Never The Edge, Why Did We Grill Candidates On It?
A_K_Nain · x · 2026-10-03
The author calls out a contradiction in current AI narratives: if writing efficient code is no longer a software engineer's edge, why was the industry obsessed with evaluating candidates on exactly that skill? The inconsistency, they argue, is too funny to ignore.
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