When AI writes the code, what skills are employers hiring for?

"The moment teams accept that the syntax interview is broken, they immediately ask themselves the wrong question: 'What should we replace it with?' That question assumes the problem was the format. It wasn't. The problem was the signal it tested for. For 20 years, technical interviews relied on a simple assumption: If a candidate could produce correct code under pressure, they likely understood the underlying system. That assumption no longer holds. AI can now generate correct syntax instantly, which means code output is no longer a reliable proxy for competence. In response, many teams are experimenting with so-called audit interviews. They hand candidates AI-generated code and ask them to critique it. This is directionally right, but most implementations fail for a predictable reason. They still don't know what they're scoring."

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The trip that changed me: How Antarctica shattered Daniela Hernandez's sense of self

"What happens when a place is so vast, so remote, that it strips away the story you've been telling about yourself? For science journalist Daniela Hernandez, two reporting trips to Antarctica didn't just expand her worldview — they dismantled it. Armed with a PhD in neuroscience from Columbia and years covering health and extreme environments for The Wall Street Journal and Wired, Daniela thought of herself as confident and self-reliant. But standing on the ice, surrounded by silence and scale, something shifted."

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24 beautiful images from the World Nature Photography Awards 2026

"Off the coast of Tonga, a rare white humpback whale swims closely alongside its mother. Photographer Jono Allen caught the extraordinary moment in a photograph (seen above) that just earned top honors at the World Nature Photography Awards 2026. 'Sharing this moment with Mãhina and her protective mother is a memory that will live with me forever,' Allen said in a statement. 'It was undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary days I have ever experienced in the ocean-and perhaps ever will.'"

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The world's oldest known vertebrates had two pairs of eyes

"The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two. The remnants of those extra eyes persist in the human brain today as the pineal organ, which is deep inside our brain, regulating our sleep cycle, but no longer forms images. Early vertebrates 'had eyes like we do, but not just eyes like we do. They had four eyes… That's quite amazing to think that our ancestors were swimming around in the ocean like half a billion years ago, and used four eyes to see the world. They probably had a much greater field of view.'"

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