just finished watching neetcode talk about his transition from big tech like amazon and google to the startup grind. it is pretty interesting how he views the current landscape w/ all these new models around. most people think we can just automate everything away but he argues that
deep technical knowledge is actually more vital than ever. even if you are just running python scripts to audit crawl errors or check regex patterns you still need to understand the underlying logic. it is easy to get lazy with ai-generated suggestions and end up with
broken site architecture or massive indexing issues.
the real skill is knowing when the output is hallucinating index instructions . i wonder if anyone else feels like our jobs are becoming more about verifying outputs than actually writing the initial logic. it is def a shift from how we used to work.
just clicking buttons is not going to cut it anymore.
link:
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tech-interviews-with-neetcode