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Almost everyone in the industry worth their weight is using LLMs now. Top tier models create really solid code nowadays.

What is the last fad that the entire industry adopted in 9 months?

If cost per intelligence is going down, and compute capacity is rising I can’t see a world where token pricing will go up.

Programming was never enjoyable to me.

Making things is. LLMs allow you to be extremely pragmatic and enjoy making things or troubleshooting things without tedious line by line nature.

Leetcode seems pretty useless right now. I think a take home, the results, and a conversation will lead to a really solid hiring signal though.

This may have been true last year but nowadays AI is far better and more thorough, and faster than 90% of devs when driven by someone knowledgeable.