The AI-native workforce isn’t coming—it’s already rewriting your job descriptions.
The Death of the Coding Monkeys 🐒
Jacqueline Samira at Howdy.com just dropped a truth bomb: if you’re still grilling engineers on syntax trivia or leetcode puzzles, you’re basically asking them to prove they can chisel code into stone tablets. The real skill now? Orchestrating AI like a conductor with a symphony of silicon. The modern dev isn’t a code-crunching drone—they’re an AI whisperer, fluent in prompting, critical evaluation, and knowing when the bot is hallucinating (spoiler: often).
Interviewing for the Wrong Apocalypse
Tech interviews are still stuck in the “reverse this binary tree” dark ages. Meanwhile, AI is out here generating entire codebases before your recruiter finishes their artisanal pour-over coffee. The new litmus test?
- Can they debug GPT’s existential crisis when it writes spaghetti code?
- Do they treat Copilot like a genius intern or a drunk intern?
- Can they explain AI’s nonsense to stakeholders without crying?
The Real Divide: Seniors vs. Juniors 🤖
Senior engineers? They need to stop gatekeeping “the old ways”—AI won’t replace them, but a junior with ChatGPT might. New devs? They’re already AI-native but risk becoming prompt monkeys without mentorship in actual architecture. The future isn’t “AI vs. humans”—it’s humans who treat AI like a power tool, not a magic wand. And if your hiring process hasn’t noticed? Well, enjoy your legacy codebase… written entirely by a bot you didn’t train. Cheers.