Liam Eisenberg for BI AI has upended what it means to be a software engineer. It's also changing how you become one. Before the AI boom, software engineering interviews revolved around writing code from memory, solving algorithmic puzzles, and demonstrating technical speed under pressure. Today, CEOs are scouring GitHub and X for undiscovered talent, encouraging candidates to use AI during interview rounds, and increasingly hiring for judgment and taste. For the millions of software engineers a