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Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using... by nyarlathotep_ on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:08PM (#42914485)
> People aren't developers with 5 years experience, if all they can do is copy and paste. Anyone fraudulently claiming so is a scam artist, a liar, and deserves jail time.

I won't name names, but there are a lot of Consulting companies that feed off Government contracts that are literally this.

"Experience" means a little or a lot, depending on your background. I've met plenty of people with "years of experience" that are objectively terrible programmers.

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Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using... by bbarnett on Monday February 03, 2025 @02:04AM (#42915709)
Yet said poor programmers would never pass the test I specified, without committing fraud. That, and the other conditions I specified, ensure so.

If the AI premise is true, then it's this or good programmers, and good companies will never meet.

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