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How FAANG Engineers Use AI Coding Assistants Without Losing Their Edge
Episode 86 of The Tech Career Podcast explores how FAANG engineers are using AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor without letting the tools atrophy their core skills. Lucas and Luna discuss the trap of becoming a 'prompt engineer' who can't read code, the surprising metric of AI-assisted deletion rate, and the specific review habits that separate effective users from careless ones. They share concrete practices from senior engineers at Google and Meta: why you should always read the diff even when the code works, how to use AI for boilerplate and testing but not for system…
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