Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?

Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using... by alpha_squared on Sunday February 02, 2025 @04:55PM (#42912237)

We do the same thing. It's perfectly fine for candidates to use AI-assistive tooling provided that they can edit/maintain the code and not just sit in a prompt the whole time. The heavier a candidate relies on LLMs, the worse they often do. It really comes down to discipline.

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Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using... by sureIy on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:32PM (#42914634)

Discipline for what?

To me it's the lack of skill. If the LLM spits out junk you should be able to tell. ChatGPT-based interviews could work just as well to determine the ability to understand, review and fix code effectively.

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Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using... by skeeter2020 on Monday February 03, 2025 @12:04AM (#42915164)

>> If the LLM spits out junk you should be able to tell.

Reading existing code and ensuring correctness is way harder than writing it yourself. How would someone who can't do it in the first place tell if it was incorrect?

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Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using... by JoshuaDavid on Monday February 03, 2025 @01:15AM (#42915470)

Make the model write annotated tests too, verify that the annotations plausibly could match the test code, run the tests, feed the failures back in, and iterate until all tests are green?

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