Damn. When I was in school I was messing with the very early stages of nltk and machine learning frameworks to try and categorize poetry as a side project. Most classes were still in java and submission was literally printing it off and handing it over to the professor who would mark it up with pen lol.

I wasn't in a big school, but it was a Red Hat feeder. Some of the kids who came up after my have been popping up as applicants in my current workplace and it's pretty bleak.

I do the coding interviews and make sure they're in person and I let them choose what they want to do. Only rule is no AI, only me (I make it clear they can ask any questions and I'll help them if they get stuck). So far, out of 10 or so interviewees I've only had one that could write a fizz buzz in Python...