I've only done a few interviews the past couple years, but I've asked people to turn off coding assistants and not use an LLM on my coding screen. I want to know how _they_ think and solve problems, not how the LLM does.
And generally, the more junior people are just completely lost without it. They've become so dependent on it, they can't even google anything anymore. Their search queries are very weirdly conversational questions and the idea of reading the docs for whatever language or library they're using is totally foreign to them.
I think it's really hampering the growth of junior devs - their reasoning and thought processes are just totally tuned to this conversational form of copy and paste programming, and the code is really bad. I think the bottom half of programmers may just LLM themselves out of any sort of job because they lose the ability to think and problem solve... Kinda sad imo.
And generally, the more junior people are just completely lost without it. They've become so dependent on it, they can't even google anything anymore. Their search queries are very weirdly conversational questions and the idea of reading the docs for whatever language or library they're using is totally foreign to them.
I think it's really hampering the growth of junior devs - their reasoning and thought processes are just totally tuned to this conversational form of copy and paste programming, and the code is really bad. I think the bottom half of programmers may just LLM themselves out of any sort of job because they lose the ability to think and problem solve... Kinda sad imo.