“I've essentially been through the great reset at this point. Everybody is back at the starting point again. I see a lot of people talk about having traditional coding interviews, with no coding agent, just prove your skill at coding. I don't think anybody wants that anymore. They want to see how you handle your horde. Everybody at this point is going to have a horde of agents behind them, and how well you can manage the horde to do your bidding is the new skill in 2026 and beyond.”

That's a really good point. I mean, we talk about juniors, but I mean, what do we do and do interview senior people nowadays? Exactly. We're still at the

entire playing field

Yeah. What you're suggesting is what we all used to complain about: where you're asked to whiteboard or write on a Google Doc some code that compiles and works and is syntactically correct, but you would never write it that way with VS Code. It would be auto formatting, it would be suggesting…

And we're going to get to a point here where it's actively bad to not use an agent. Like, I think we're already there. Yeah. I did an experiment where I took some free AI code from 2020 that I thought was really good at the time. And I was very happy with it. It was up to the coding standards of…

well and i can do you one better so at the company that i work for allspice we have been hiring developers and we're hiring we're not really hiring juniors unfortunately we're we're a startup so we need people who are experienced people who have done this for a while but we so we're hiring i would…