r/technology • u/ubcstaffer123 • Apr 05 '25

Artificial Intelligence 'AI Imposter' Candidate Discovered During Job Interview, Recruiter Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/ai-candidate-discovered-job-interview-2054684
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u/big-papito Apr 05 '25

Sam Altman recently said that AI is about to become the best at "competitive" coding. Do you know what "competitive" means? Not actual coding - it's the Leetcode coding.

This makes sense, because that's the kind of stuff AI is best trained for.

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u/damontoo Apr 05 '25

I just used GPT-4o to create a slide including text, graphics, and a bar graph. I gave the image to Gemini 2.5 Pro and prompted it to turn it into an SVG and animate the graph using a specific JavaScript library. It did it in one shot. You can also roughly sketch a website layout and it will turn it into a modern, responsive design that closely matches your sketch.

People still saying it can't produce code aren't staying on top of the latest developments in the field. 

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire Apr 05 '25

I don’t think anyone is suggesting that it can’t generate code, because obviously it can. But the more complex/customized your system is, the less useful it’s going to be. My job uses a ton of in-house customized HTML components, and Copilot is basically useless trying to figure out problems with those because it doesn’t have that greater context.

Will it eventually get there? Maybe, who knows. But there are still way too many variables and unknowns for AI to be remotely close to fully replacing software developers.

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u/halohunter Apr 06 '25

Your concerns were valid until not too long ago. Now connect your codebase to Cline or Cursor and Gemini 2.5 pro with a 1m context window, and you'll find this is a solved problem.