I am very curious about this as well, as an IC. I have not written code by hand for almost two years now and have produced a mountain of Python code over the past year (well architected, using all of my experience in other languages to support good judgement). However, Python is new to me -- I've never hand written a line.

This is all fine and good at my current job, but were I to ever go back on the market. What an uncomfortable conversation!

How does one approach this weird state we're in?