Hiring ASP.NET Developers with AI Usage Skills: Tips
Quick Summary: Hiring experienced ASP.NET developers who have worked with AI means seeking developers who possess good C#/.NET skills and real-world experience in hosting AI or machine learning services e.g., Azure Cognitive Services, ML.NET, or TensorFlow.NET. Search for evidence of integrating intelligent features like recommendation engines, chatbots, or predictive analytics into web apps.
Introduction
Nowadays, the use of artificial intelligence is becoming a trend. The industries are under transformation, including the IT sector as well.
The developers are now working with different AI-based tools in terms of work optimization. If we look at ASP.NET development widely, developers are not people who just write the code in a manual way, but also experts that use AI assistants that monitor their work, give recommendations, find errors, and execute other valuable tasks. In this article, our team will major focus on the positive influence of the AO on the work of ASP.NET developers. Besides, we will give some tips about where and how to hire such experienced software engineers.
How AI-Powered Coding Assistants Help
AI tools that help developers create code can perform the following functions:
- Automatic generation of certain code parts of functionality (for example, you can ask ChatGPT or another tool to generate an ASP.NET Core login form)
- Autocompletion of certain lines of code (this is represented in the form of recommendations)
- Identification of typos and missing characters that cause bugs, and recommendations for edits
- Improvement of the common code readability and complexity
- Auto-writing of unit tests to verify the work of the written code
- Tools can provide recommendations for optimizing an exact parts of the code that are outdated or lagging in terms of performance or other indicators
Examples of AI-Featured Tools that ASP.NET Developers Could Handle
There are different types of AI assistants, and we will provide some examples and distribute them by type:
- AI tools for deployment (Azure Copilot, Amazon CodeGuru, etc.)
- AI-based IDEs (Cursor, Codeium IDE, Visual Studio IntelliCode)
- Tools for conducting testing and test generation (Autotest Copilot, Testim, Postman AI)
- Chats (ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.)
What Skills Should AI-Aware ASP.NET Developers Have?
Our team has analysed and created a list of the skills that ASP.NET development professionals could potentially have:
- Significant experience in ASP.NET Core back-end development
- Creating APIs from scratch, understanding software development architectures and patterns, best practices, and the ability to write clean code
- EF Core Knowledge
- SQL and NoSQL DB knowledge
- CI/CD experience
- Proficient usage of AI coding assistants and understanding of the principles of their work
- Ability to clearly evaluate the result of generation from an AI tool (ability to analyze security and other aspects, make changes, and verify the correct operation of a piece of functionality)
- Experience in automation of repetitive tasks for development work optimization (for instance, the ability to generate tests, etc.)
- Hands-on experience on the previous projects in refactoring the outdated part of the code using AI tools
- The ability to clearly distinguish which available tasks can be done using AI and which need to be performed completely manually
- A clear understanding of code security and filtering recommendations from AI assistants to avoid making code vulnerable
Where to Find and Hire ASP.NET Core Developers with AI Tools Usage Competencies
Below, we provide a few examples of sites or marketplaces where you can find developers with AI expertise:
- Forums dedicated to .NET technology and all related topics for software development/IT
- Forums dedicated to AI-featured tools
- Dev communities or general IT-related sites (e.g., Reddit, GitHub, or Tabnine communities)
- Developer profiles on GitHub
- LinkedIn or job sites where you can search for candidates and post positions with requirements
- Hire an ASP.NET developer through an ASP.NET development company
- Employer of Record (EOR) service providers like Borderless AI or other similar platforms that help companies hire ASP.NET Core developers internationally while managing compliance and payroll.
How to Assess the Skills of Developers in AI Tool Usage
From our experience, we have gathered some examples of what to ask potential ASP.NET candidates:
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- The AI-based tool that is stated in the candidate’s CV (ask some common behavioral questions and scenario-based questions with examples)
- During the interview, you can organize a mini-coding challenge where you can test the candidate’s real skills on a simple task
- You can ask general questions about the candidate’s use of AI-powered tools in their daily workflow and how they use them, as well as how much they rely on them (it is filter the information and recommendations provided by them).
What answers/reactions might alert the interviewer:
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- The developer is unable to explain the code generated by the AI tool
- Overreliance on the reliability of the generated code
- The candidate agrees with all aspects of the generated code and does not want to review it
How AI Tools Usage Impacts the ASP.NET Development Projects
Pros
- Thanks to the use of AI-based tools by ASP.NET developers, the quality of the issued code, its readability, cleanliness, and the ability to be maintainable, improve
- AI tools help improve the processes of checking written code and writing tests to increase test coverage
- With the involvement of AI assistants, it is observed that the risk of developer burnout is significantly reduced since ASP.NET projects themselves are complex, sometimes routine, and have strict deadlines
Cons
- Over-reliance on code generated by an AS tool and blindly using pieces of functionality without further verification from the developer. The generated code itself may be relatively correct, but in combination with other code, it may introduce bugs or vulnerabilities.
- Quality of recommendations: AI tools do not always give truly correct recommendations for a specific project
- The limitation of training data for AI training means that tools can only provide limited hints without understanding all aspects.
Conclusion
The use of AI tools is an integral part of modern ASP.NET development. For the highest quality code output and optimization of software development processes, engineers must understand how to use AI tools correctly and when it is appropriate. Professional ASP.NET developers with extensive experience and understanding of the principles of assistants and generated code in general can significantly improve and speed up the product itself. That is why hiring such professionals in the modern IT world is important.
