How to evaluate good engineers in the AI era
Inspired by AI is breaking our proxies for expertise
- Code is cheap now
- Good manually crafted code is harder to stand out in the flood of AI slop
What was deemed good effort to be rewarded is different
Having lots of code on your github used to be a good proxy to show that you're good at coding
But now everyone can generate lots of code.
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AI slop that looks ok is everywhere. In How to evaluate good engineers in the AI era, what used to be good proxies for good engineers is now different. What used to…
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- AI is breaking our proxies for expertise inspired this note
- The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI cited