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6 min read Cognition’s engineering loop, the agent-infrastructure problems they put in front of you, and how to prepare for a team building autonomous coding agents. Read article
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7 min read A reference table mapping fifteen coding-interview patterns to the signal that triggers each one and the canonical problem to learn it on. Read article
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