Without AI I'm Going to Destroy You

We still want the best-in-class programmers. It's just that what is best-in-class is changing. Best-in-class now means you actually are very efficient at working with AI, and somebody who's without AI going up against me with Claude 4.7, like, I'm going to absolutely destroy them. There's just no question. We've had to rethink our hiring process. The old way of interviewing software engineers especially is you give them a coding puzzle, like a LeetCode-style interview, and you— our policy at CodeGen, which we've carried through to AI Maximalism, we're not measuring your ability to solve a LeetCode-style programming question. We instead give you a very ambitious task and we give you a powerful AI We say accomplish this.