How We Hire for the 20% AI Can't Do (And Why We Stopped Asking Candidates to Code From Scratch)

The article argues that live coding interviews are becoming outdated as AI can now generate routine code quickly.

It proposes a new hiring format: give candidates AI-generated code with subtle bugs and ask them to review and reject it.

Using payment-processing examples, the test focuses on missing idempotency, invalid state transitions, and other system-level risks.

The goal is to evaluate engineering judgment, business impact, and edge cases that AI-written code may miss.