# How AI Is Changing Coding Interviews in 2026

DevFeed: [How AI Is Changing Coding Interviews in 2026](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/coding-interviews-in-2026-are-harder-than-ever-and-you-re-less-prepared-than-you-think-32365.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://brianjenney.substack.com/p/coding-interviews-in-2026-are-harder>)

Author: Brian Jenney

Published: 2026-04-28T16:21:33Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Brian Jenney](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/brian-jenney.md>)

Topics: [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [AI Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-engineering.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [HackerRank](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hackerrank.md>), [LeetCode](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/leetcode.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [interviews](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interviews.md>), [software-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineer.md>), [technical-interview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical-interview.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article argues that coding interviews in 2026 remain disconnected from day-to-day software work, while AI has changed how developers write code. It describes traditional data-structures-and-algorithms assessments and other interview formats developers may encounter.

## Source excerpt

Coding interviews have been notoriously tone deaf for years.