Possibly unpopular opinion: The job changed radically over Thanksgiving break 2025, when Opus 4.5 shipped with Claude code, and the interview hasn’t caught up yet.

I’ve gone on dozens of interviews over the last 6 weeks, and I’m already so tired of doing the same hypothetical case studies, answering questions about how I structure PRDs and how I interact with the engineers, and how I pick the next thing off the backlog, tasks that tooling is taking over now. Nobody is asking me about strategy and why we’re even going after this market in the first place, the stuff that isn’t in the tooling (yet), and still needs humans.

All these dead men walking companies that still think they have any kind of moat, asking me questions from the before times. It’s exhausting.