What Makes a Software Engineer Valuable in the Age of AI in Interviews: Project Ownership

🚨 AI-LED INTERVIEWS ARE CHANGING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. My latest AI-led interview experience revealed one thing: Vibe coding alone isn’t enough. The interview went deep into project ownership, architecture, debugging, and problem-solving—not just whether I could generate code with AI. I had to demonstrate that I genuinely understood the project, explain the bugs I encountered, reason through the root causes, and show how I solved them. 💡 The lesson for every software engineer: Don’t just copy-paste an error into an AI agent and wait for the fix. Understand your project. Understand your code. Understand your bugs. Then use AI as your engineering multiplier. In this video, I break down my experience, the skills the interview tested, the bugs I solved, and what engineers should focus on to stay valuable in the age of AI. 🔥 AI can write the code. But can you own the project? #SoftwareEngineering #AI #VibeCoding #CodingInterviews #AICoding #SoftwareDeveloper #Debugging #ProjectOwnership #TechCareers