What We Learned Hiring 33 Engineers in Two Weeks

What We Learned Hiring 33 Engineers in Two Weeks(digitalocean.com)

7 points by RyeCombinator 4 hours ago | 2 comments

scottlamb 4 hours ago |

In an earlier thread, I wondered [1] if "concentrating around AI-native talent" in a round of layoffs was code for "we're firing all the old people", if "AI-native talent" meant people who had never learned how to do things without AI. Many folks said no, of course not. Well, in this case digital ocean has removed all doubt; "AI-native" means exactly that:

> Most of the engineers in this cohort are early in their careers. That was intentional. ... Engineers entering the field today don’t think of AI as a tool they’ve had to adopt. It’s simply how they build. That fluency isn’t something you retrofit into someone; it’s something you hire for directly.

Ugh.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029631

spoiler 3 hours ago | |

Gosh, that seems like a conclusion someone came to using AI lol.

I agree that intuition is important, and that it's sometimes easier to develop correct intuition without a conflicting bias/habit, BUT... I don't think traditional engineering skills conflict with using AI tools. If anything it's more important, but maybe that's just the recently sprouted gay hair on my head talking