I'd hire an undergraduate who can produce this level of work with Claude.

What are you basing this statement on? The code comments read very human to me. Your the one hurting their chances of finding a job by falsely saying this.

Every company they apply to will be leveraging LLMs. Time to get over it. No need to be grumpy old man about such things. Every generation has faced such foes. The old always yields to the new.

For the times they are a-changin'