- Published on September 2, 2024
- In AI Hirings
Wake Me Up When Companies Start Hiring Clueless Modern ‘Developers’
People who know how to drive are not all F1 racers.
- By Mohit Pandey
“Programming is no longer hard” or “everyone’s a developer” are the most common phrases that one would hear on LinkedIn or X as everyone is basically talking about Cursor, Claude, or GitHub Copilot. But the problem is that most of the people who claim so are not developers themselves. They are merely ‘modern developers.’
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Santiago Valdarrama, founder of Tideily and an ML teacher, who has been actively asking developers if they are using Cursor or not, started another discussion that tools such as Cursor and others are basically tools that can only assist existing developers in writing better code. “Wake me up when companies start hiring these clueless modern ‘developers’,” he added.
He gave an analogy of calling yourself an
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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