> many of us older folks have had the experience of engaging directly with people and evaluating their competence. We developed a knack for quickly determining

> many of us older folks have had the experience of engaging directly with people and evaluating their competence. We developed a knack for quickly determining someone's skill level through just a few minutes of face-to-face conversation—a skill that was essential for navigating various life situations. I think I have a bit of this knack, in some areas, tempered by an awareness of some of my blind spots, but most people don't even claim to have this knack... As evidence from our own field: before the explosion of LLM cheating, we had the explosion of Leetcode hazing. Because, supposedly, good experienced software developers couldn't plausibly recognize each other just by talking with each other. So instead we whip out these douchetastic did-you-prep-for-this rituals. And afterwards you still have no idea what the other person would be like to work with (except that you now know both of you are willing to play fratbro nonsense games).