The Cursor-Era Pair Programming Interview: A New Format Emerges
5 min read A new interview format started showing up in 2025 and has spread through 2026. The pattern: the interviewer, the candidate, […] Read article
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How tech interviews work in the era of LLMs and AI coding assistants. Company-by-company AI tool policies, AI lab interview processes, prompt engineering during coding rounds, debugging AI-generated code, and the post-LLM coding interview format.
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Should I Disclose AI Use in a Take-Home? — Decision Framework (2026)
6 min read The take-home assignment in 2026 sits in a gray zone. Most explicit instructions about AI tool use are either nonexistent Read article
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Debugging AI-Generated Code in Interviews: The New Core Skill
6 min read In AI-permitted coding interviews, the AI rarely produces a fully correct first draft. The bugs are usually subtle: an off-by-one, Read article
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Using AI Tools in Tech Interviews: The 2026 Canon
6 min read The tech interview that worked in 2022 is broken in 2026. The reason is simple: the engineer who shows up Read article
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AI Tool Policy Tracker: Which Tech Companies Allow AI in Interviews (2026)
5 min read This is a living document tracking which tech companies allow AI coding assistants during their technical interview rounds, which prohibit Read article
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Prompt Engineering During a Coding Interview: What Interviewers Grade
6 min read In an AI-permitted coding interview, the rubric shifts. The interviewer is not grading the code (the AI can produce code); Read article