Mo Bitar reacts to an Anthropic engineering manager’s account of dropping traditional coding interviews for his team. He questions how hiring teams can evaluate engineers who build with AI and considers conversations and take-home projects as possible approaches.
Bitar discusses the value of fresh perspectives, prototypes and business impact, while challenging the specificity of the advice and noting the costs candidates can face when using paid AI tools.
He also reacts to an Amazon engineering update about AI use and measuring outcomes, and shares examples of tools he has built with agentsAn AI coding agent is a tool-using AI system that can inspect, modify, and validate software within a repository..
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