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It’s wild to think about how a simple home computer—a machine that could barely run a text editor or a small 2D game—used to amaze us. Now, we’ve got Artificial Intelligence (AI) quietly handling tasks in our everyday devices, from suggesting which movie to watch next to helping doctors spot illnesses faster. It’s easy to forget just how rapidly AI has grown because so much of it happens behind the scenes. But if you peek under the hood, you’ll see that training those clever models and keeping them running is neither cheap nor straightforward. ...

The technical interview process in the software industry is broken. As someone who has been on both sides of the interview table, I’ve noticed a concerning trend: companies are testing candidates on complex algorithmic problems that rarely appear in day-to-day work. The Current State Picture this: You’re a seasoned developer with years of experience building scalable applications, writing clean code, and solving real business problems. You apply for a position, and what do you face in the coding challenge? Questions about implementing a Red-Black tree, solving complex dynamic programming problems, or optimizing an algorithm to find the nth Fibonacci number. ...

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