--- title: "Blog | CoderPad" description: "Get the latest tips on hiring the best coders. Coderpad's blog is here to make technical hiring easier." canonical: "https://coderpad.io/blog/" last_modified: "2026-09-07 19:40:51" --- Insights & Resources # Build better engineering teams Explore insights on technical hiring, AI readiness, developer skills, and product updates from the team behind CoderPad. [](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/how-to-hire-for-ai-fluency-now-that-its-a-critical-skill/) [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) ### [How to Hire for AI Fluency Now That It’s a Critical Skill](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/how-to-hire-for-ai-fluency-now-that-its-a-critical-skill/) Based on the CoderPad webinar featuring Bayo Ojuri (CoderPad), Bonnie Dilber (Zapier), and Melany Austin (GoDaddy). “AI fluency” has quietly become a line item in nearly every technical job description. The problem: most teams added the requirement long before they had a reliable way to assess it. You can ask a candidate whether they use […] [](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/hot-takes-on-hiring-ai-fluency-is-a-myth/) [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) ### [Hot Takes on Hiring: “AI Fluency” Is a Myth](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/hot-takes-on-hiring-ai-fluency-is-a-myth/) [](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/5-unfiltered-takes-on-ai-that-engineering-leaders-actually-believe/) [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) ### [5 Unfiltered Takes on AI That Engineering Leaders Actually Believe](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/5-unfiltered-takes-on-ai-that-engineering-leaders-actually-believe/) [](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/your-developer-interview-loop-is-a-year-old-is-it-still-finding-your-best-candidates/) [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) ### [Your Developer Interview Loop Is a Year Old. Is It Still Finding Your Best Candidates?](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/your-developer-interview-loop-is-a-year-old-is-it-still-finding-your-best-candidates/) [](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/your-question-bank-is-leaking-heres-the-fix/) [Product Updates](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/) ### [Your Question Bank Is Leaking. Here’s the Fix.](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/your-question-bank-is-leaking-heres-the-fix/) Latest by topics - [All](https://coderpad.io/blog/) - [Announcements](https://coderpad.io/blog/announcements/) - [Coding Challenges](https://coderpad.io/blog/coding-challenges/) - [Community](https://coderpad.io/blog/community/) - [Data Science](https://coderpad.io/blog/data-science/) - [Development](https://coderpad.io/blog/development/) - [Engineering Management](https://coderpad.io/blog/engineering-management/) - [Events](https://coderpad.io/blog/events/) - [Getting Hired](https://coderpad.io/blog/getting-hired/) - [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) - [Interviewing](https://coderpad.io/blog/interviewing/) - [Product Updates](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/) ## Trending Articles Search articles Search articles [](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/ai-fluency-is-the-new-technical-skill-is-your-hiring-process-ready/) [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) ### [AI Fluency Is the New Technical Skill. Is Your Hiring Process Ready?](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/ai-fluency-is-the-new-technical-skill-is-your-hiring-process-ready/) Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed software development. Developers are no longer working in isolation, writing every line of code from memory. AI has become part of the engineering workflow, helping developers brainstorm approaches, generate boilerplate code, and debug complex issues. The question isn’t whether engineers are using AI. It’s how effectively they’re using it. Hiring […] [](https://coderpad.io/blog/announcements/best-technical-assessment-software-for-hr-teams-in-2026/) [Announcements](https://coderpad.io/blog/announcements/) ### [Best Technical Assessment Software for HR Teams in 2026](https://coderpad.io/blog/announcements/best-technical-assessment-software-for-hr-teams-in-2026/) Finding the best technical assessment software for HR teams isn’t about finding the platform with the longest feature list. It’s about finding the platform that helps you identify real skills quickly, fairly, and consistently. The challenge for recruiting and talent acquisition teams is separating signal from noise. A candidate may have an impressive resume or […] [](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/ai-didnt-kill-entry-level-hiring-bad-screening-did/) [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) ### [AI Didn’t Kill Entry Level Hiring. Bad Screening Did.](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/ai-didnt-kill-entry-level-hiring-bad-screening-did/) For the last two years, the narrative has been loud, confident, and mostly wrong: AI is coming for entry level engineering jobs. The story goes something like this: If AI can write code, summarize docs, generate tests, and debug basic issues, why would companies still hire junior engineers? It sounds logical. It is also incomplete. 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The result is a hiring funnel built almost entirely on artificial signals, where the […] [](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/is-your-technical-hiring-process-screening-out-great-engineers/) [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) ### [Is Your Technical Hiring Process Screening Out Great Engineers?](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/is-your-technical-hiring-process-screening-out-great-engineers/) The short answer: Many technical hiring processes are doing the latter. High-friction interview loops, live coding under observation, and AI-restrictive assessments are measuring interview performance, not job performance. The fix isn’t rebuilding from scratch — it’s auditing whether your process measures engineering capability or something else entirely. If you attended our recent webinar with CoderPad […] [](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/junior-developers-are-your-strategic-advantage-if-you-can-actually-evaluate-them/) [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) ### [Junior Developers Are Your Strategic Advantage—If You Can Actually Evaluate Them](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/junior-developers-are-your-strategic-advantage-if-you-can-actually-evaluate-them/) Campus recruiting season arrives the same way every year: hundreds of applications, a narrow window, and a process that was never designed for this much volume or this much pressure. Meanwhile, the definition of “technical skill” is actively shifting—AI-polished resumes have made traditional screening nearly meaningless, and the skills that predict junior developer success look […] [](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/2026-product-recap/) [Product Updates](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/) ### [2026 Product Recap: Technical Hiring Has Changed. We Built for What Comes Next.](https://coderpad.io/blog/product-updates/2026-product-recap/) AI has fundamentally changed how engineers work. It’s not a tool candidates might use anymore. It’s embedded in how code gets written, reviewed, and shipped every day. In many teams, the majority of code is already AI-assisted—and growing. Which leads to a clear conclusion for hiring teams: Trying to remove AI from the interview process […] [](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/your-hiring-process-is-losing-you-top-talent-before-they-ever-interview/) [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) ### [Your Hiring Process Is Losing You Top Talent. Before They Ever Interview!](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/your-hiring-process-is-losing-you-top-talent-before-they-ever-interview/) Here’s a hard truth most TA leaders don’t want to admit: your hiring process is screening for the wrong thing. Not skills. Not judgment. Not potential. It’s screening for the ability to interview well. And those two things have almost nothing to do with each other. We sat down with recruiting experts Cammas Freeman, Phil […] [](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/coderpad-uses-coderpad-to-hire-engineers-heres-how/) [Hiring Developers](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/) ### [CoderPad Uses CoderPad to Hire Engineers. Here’s How.](https://coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/coderpad-uses-coderpad-to-hire-engineers-heres-how/) When we opened our latest software engineer role, we had 100 applications within 24 hours. By the end of the first week, without running a single ad, we had 160 candidates in the pipeline. That’s a lot of signal to sort through. 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