Engineer proposes two-round interviews for the AI coding era

Developer Lauren (@poteto) argues that software engineer interviews can be trimmed to two rounds in the AI agent era: system design plus a live project built with an agent. The proposal drew wide attention, with around 250k views.

2026-10-10 ~ 2026-10-11 · 2 related posts

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