How should hiring processes treat candidates who use AI to complete assessments?

Ashley Kelly · Jun 7, 2024 · hedged

Candidates using AI on the email assessment may not be a problem — it can show resourcefulness with tools that make them a better SDR

The output is what matters, and using available tools is itself a useful skill

Scope: explicitly retracts her initial hesitation that AI makes email assessments untrustworthy

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Harry Stebbings · Jun 7, 2024

Candidates who use AI to write their assessment email deserve more credit, not less

It means they can operate at more scale, and if you can't tell it was AI the output is probably good

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Jerry Murdock · Feb 28, 2026

A graduate entering the workforce today should buy a Mac Mini, run an open agent setup, and show up to job interviews with their own agent

Scope: quick-fire advice

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Clay Bavor · Jul 4, 2026

Engineering interviews should be AI-native — candidates should be given a budget for tokens and their own agent setup and asked to build something, rather than tested in a non-AI environment.

The relevant skill is now how someone builds with coding agents, alongside the durable tests of architecture, systems design, product thinking and values fit.

54:05 Design the interview around agent assisted building