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Comment by garyjlin

> If you want to test someone's ability to do the real work, then give them an obscure error code from a little-used utility and see how long it takes to find the fix.

This is actually a type of interview we're trying to support! A blocker right now is that once it's leaked, you basically have to throw the interview away. The good part about the "feature building" type interview questions is that it almost doesn't matter if the prompt + codebase is leaked, because your solution is probably still not optimal. "Good code" is super subjective and takes years of experience/learning to master, but an obscure bug fix shifts the end result to a boolean state, which is easy to leak (thus hard to detect plagiarism).

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