Junior Devs Can't Work with AI-Generated Code
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There was a lot of push towards this but I think it's counter productive and will make interviewing even more random and hard to evaluate.
LLMs aren't a magic wand that save you from learning how to code. And we can assume that anybody who can code, can also use an LLM, so this isn't a skill we need to assess (same reason that we didn't allow for googling answers before LLM was a thing).