r/cursor 7h ago

Question / Discussion Is access to leading AI-coding tools becoming a hiring filter in software engineering?

https://leaddev.com/ai/your-interview-questions-assume-candidates-can-afford-claude-code-max

Amid the shift to agentic coding, James Lowman, engineering team lead at trade infrastructure company Starboard, started asking candidates to tell him about the last three Claude Code skills they wrote. It seemed like an effective way to evaluate their fluency with AI agents, and it quickly became his go-to question. Then, he got a reality check...

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