But most joiners will be the ones that will use it the most, trying to leapfrog their lack of experience with AI - which will provide the biggest issue imho

This was the point that drove me to write the article in the first place. I think that there should be some kind of knowledge threshold before you can use assistants. I think the same point can be applied to why students need to know how to calculate some equation without a calculator.

Whatever organization they end up at that doesn't catch cheating during the interview process deserves what they get.