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by AnotherGoodName 338 days ago
Yep, fwiw there's often live coding interviews done in the editor of your choice that require AI to be off.

As in even if you love AI and use it a lot you should have the ability to turn it off.

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The ones I’ve done (as of late last year), they were okay with AI autocomplete but not a full prompting/agentic workflow.

They wanted me to architect the solution, but were okay with it filling in basic for loops.

I would actually start interviewing with AI as well. How well they prompt and how good they are at reviewing AI slop?
Yeup, this exactly. If they're going to be allowed to use claude-code/copilot day to day, how well they review the ai-generated code is going to be huge signal, as well as they could explain what happened. Also, if they're jsut blind vibe-coding something, without creating a nice quick spec for the LLM, that would also be a signal. Also, makes for very easy follow on questions during the interview.
Aw shucks, I guess that rules out Notepad on Win11 then.