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A Hiring Manager Reports 80% of Dev Candidates Now Say They Direct Agents Rather Than Write Code
An Ask HN thread from a manager who interviews developers puts a number on something usually discussed anecdotally: roughly 80% of candidates tell him they aren't writing much code themselves anymore. His open question is whether conventional leetcode and system design interviews still measure anything. The top replies converge on a two-stage format, a very simple take-home followed by a pairing session where the candidate extends their own submission without AI tools, on the theory that extending your own code is the part that exposes whether you understood it.
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