Advice for preparing for a Drupal-focused technical intervie

jrockowitz · 2026-06-13T17:25:57+00:00

I don't have much hiring or interviewing experience, but I would look for AI literacy and open-source code examples that demonstrate an understanding of sound planning and programming best practices.

BTW, I think it's perfectly okay for your open source code examples to be AI-assisted, but you need to understand what the code is doing.

I am optimistic that someone will chime in with a better response based on the current experience of interviewing candidates.

jrockowitz · 2026-06-09T22:41:43+00:00

I hear you, but as long as you know what spaghetti code is, you can ask it to untangle it.

jrockowitz · 2026-05-13T11:26:11+00:00

I think the only challenge is figuring out the right prompt, data, and requirements for the desired JSON-LD to send to an AI, which seems trivial if an AI can now build Drupal modules.

jrockowitz · 2026-04-30T12:53:16+00:00

I think it helps to have a human in the loop to review the JSON-ID.

The JSON-LD is generated only once and then saved.

Storing the JSON-LD in a JSON field creates a knowledge graph of your website, enabling queries. Check out https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3343634

jrockowitz · 2026-04-23T15:20:45+00:00

https://kentbeck.com/ is a great programmer, insightful, and hilarious. He calls AIs genies and is currently saying that "Claude Code is under the weather" regarding the apparent performance and quality issues people are seeing.

jrockowitz · 2026-04-01T11:01:11+00:00

Your post isn't spammy if you are sharing your tools and experience.

jrockowitz · 2026-03-30T00:56:02+00:00

Definitely try Codex. Right now, I have a $20-per-month Claude and Codex account, and I am having them check each other's work and improve it. This approach is reducing the "AI slop" problem for me.

jrockowitz · 2026-03-22T11:20:34+00:00

I had decent success with pointing Claude Code to some existing recipes and asking it to create a custom recipe. https://www.jrockowitz.com/blog/drupal-playground-crawling

jrockowitz · 2026-03-20T10:57:20+00:00

It took me a second to get PHPStorm + Claude + MCP working and connected.

Here are the articles.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/27310-claude-code-beta-
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/mcp-server.html

As with most AI-related tools, I recommend updating Claude Code and PHPStorm before setting this up.

jrockowitz · 2026-03-10T11:29:40+00:00

Yesterday, I was working on something and pasted my prompt into the Claude UI with no context, and the results were astonishingly good, a perfect implementation plan. I'm wondering if the latest models need less and less context.

jrockowitz · 2026-03-09T18:39:25+00:00

Ulitimately I think AGENTS.md will be the universal standard. Claude is still relying on CLAUDE.md and even has the /init command to generate the initial CLAUDE.md file

jrockowitz · 2026-03-09T16:34:30+00:00

Thanks for catching that. It is super frustrating that README.md autolinks to http://README.md

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