It's just a tool, right? I'm not an AI enthusiast, but I use it quite a bit, from googling to learning and checking my understanding of stuff.
So I would steer the conversation towards ways of using AI for dev-related tasks other than coding: understanding codebases, confirming my intuition/hypotheses. For example, I find LLMs pretty shitty at modifying larger codebases, but it's been helpful to, say, point Codex at the github repo of a large unfamiliar codebase that I had to learn and run my ideas about it by the LLM as I was learning.
Also, you probably don't want to succeed at job interviews with managers that will insist on your using AI in ways you don't like. A job interview is a two way process and all that.
So I would steer the conversation towards ways of using AI for dev-related tasks other than coding: understanding codebases, confirming my intuition/hypotheses. For example, I find LLMs pretty shitty at modifying larger codebases, but it's been helpful to, say, point Codex at the github repo of a large unfamiliar codebase that I had to learn and run my ideas about it by the LLM as I was learning.
Also, you probably don't want to succeed at job interviews with managers that will insist on your using AI in ways you don't like. A job interview is a two way process and all that.