What’s the point? Go ahead—ask me any random coding problem. I’ll wait. Exactly. I can just drop it into ChatGPT or Cursor and get a clean, informed solution in seconds. So what does that mean for software engineering? Should we stop hiring engineers? Of course not. It just means the way we evaluate engineers needs to evolve. The future isn’t about rote memorization or leetcode tricks. It’s about engineers being fluent across the full stack, using LLMs and modern tools to fill in the gaps, and focusing their energy on what they love—frontend, backend, infra, design, whatever. That’s how you build great teams. You free people to lean into their strengths and give them the autonomy to ship. Happy engineers are productive engineers. This isn’t just a vibe thing; it’s the truth. Nobody wants to write a binary tree traversal on a whiteboard; they want to build something real and meaningful. If you’re still handing out coding tests in 2025, you’re filtering out the exact kind of people you’re trying to hire.