AI-era coding interview: hand candidates a broken agent-built app and watch them debug
gethackteam · x · 2026-10-12
A fresh take on coding interviews for the AI era: give candidates a broken agent-generated app, let them use any model they want, then watch what they investigate, what they trust, and what they refuse to ship. Argues this is far closer to the real job than traditional whiteboard exercises.
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