1. Why Live Coding is the New Norm
AI has increased fake applications and allowed candidates to cheat on take-home challenges using GPT, forcing companies to rely on live coding to assess actual developer skills.
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Tech Job Market Harsh Truth: Code is still king
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2. Code is Essential for Architecture
The notion that developers will become AI-prompting architects while AI does the coding is flawed, because a great architect must first be a great coder and code is architecture.
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Code is still king. And why it's code still king when everybody's thinking that developers are going to be obsolete and we won't have to write a lot of code. Well, actually, because the opposite happened. Live coding is becoming the norm now and they want you to be coding live and they want to be recording when you're coding. AI increased massively the number of fake applications, fake applicants.
And there's a lot of fraud going on. So one of the few ways left for companies to actually assess your skills is to see you doing it live. Code is still king, because whatever take-home challenge you send to somebody, they will drop it into GPT and just let GPT do it and send you back a thousand lines of code that you have to go to. But not only that, some people say that, hey, with AI coding, you know, the developer will transition into more like a tech lead for AIs, or an architect where basically AI does the coding and the developer makes think decisions.
And I honestly believe this statement it's completely flawed. First, because, as I've already mentioned, AI coding sucks. And second, because a great architect, it's first and foremost, a great coder, code its architecture. You can't really have one without the other. Don't get distracted, keep on coding and keep improving your technical skills.