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Hiring in the AI Era: Can Candidates Still Build, or Just Prompt?
A hiring manager noticed fresh graduates with impressive AI-powered projects struggled to explain architecture, scaling, or debugging. The article argues that AI lowers the barrier to building but questions whether project demos alone suffice. It calls for evaluating fundamentals, problem-solving, and ownership over AI-assisted output.
Meridian48 take
The piece raises a valid concern, but it understates that prompt engineering is itself a skill—the real issue is whether candidates understand the underlying systems.
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