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stevagelast Thursday at 12:10 AM1 replyview on HN

Interestingly I find AI is actually better at that kind of CS whiteboard question (implementing a binary search tree) than that "connecting middlewares to API" type task. Or at least, it's more straightforward to apply the AI, when you want a set of functions with clearly defined interfaces written - rather than making a bunch of changes across existing files.


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ttyprintklast Thursday at 2:21 PM

I’ve wondered about the kind of person who starts white boarding with the pros and cons of several AI offerings. As if, confronted with a problem domain, they are choosing or hiring AI before architecture. As an interviewer, how should I adapt my questions? Something like, “How would you prompt it to add fuzzing?” “How would you prompt it to describe how each change might affect our stack?”