← All IntelClip / EntertainmentRethinking hiring for agentic engineers
From Andrej Karpathy on Vibe Coding & Agentic Engineering (AI Ascent 2026) · ≈18:26
“most people are still not refactored their their hiring process for agentic engineer capability”
“if you're giving out puzzles to solve, then this is still the old paradigm”
What’s in it
- Why coding puzzles fail to test agentic engineering ability
- A concrete interview: build a secure app, then attack it with agents
- How hiring should shift toward large real-world project execution
Clip transcript
maybe related thought is um a lot of people are maybe hiring for this, right? Because they want to hire strong agentic engineers. I do think that what I'm seeing is that the, you know, most people are still not refactored their their hiring process for agentic engineer capability, right? Like if you're giving out puzzles to solve, then this is still the old paradigm. I would say that hiring have to has to look like give me a really big project and see someone implement that big project. Like let's write, say a Twitter clone for agents and then make it really good, make it really secure, and then have some agents simulate some activity on this Twitter. And then I'm going to use 10 codex 5.4 x high to try to break your break your this website that you deployed and they're going to try to basically break it and they should not be able to break it. And so maybe it looks like that, right? And so yeah, watching people in that that setting and building some bigger projects and utilize utilizing the tooling is maybe
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