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We tried this, and found that it made it very hard to get a signal, during the limited 1 hour we had for a particular coding exercise, of what they are capable of themselves. A roll of paper towels could produce a functioning UI in React or another “exercise-sized” thing with Windsurf or Cursor, or even Copilot, in an hour.

We decided that if you were going to have them use ai the interview prompt given would probably need to be crafted with that in mind, both to give them enough to do, and to try to make it so that they’ll probably need to do some additional manual work to get to a final solution.