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Judgment is the signal, not speed
Put yourself in this case: "AI tools are allowed during the paid practical onsite. What is the team primarily trying to observe and what behavior fails the screen?" Give the clearest next step.
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Judgment is the signal, not speedWhen you trust, verify, reject, override
The four moves they want to see
- Trust
- Accept a completion you can read at a glance and that matches intent, like boilerplate or a mechanical refactor.
- Verify
- Run it, read the diff, check the edge case or write the quick test before you believe a non-trivial change.
- Reject
- Throw away output that is confidently wrong and say why, rather than nudging the prompt forever.
- Override
- Take the wheel by hand when you have context the model lacks, e.g. a perf constraint or an internal convention.
Narrate these out loud during the onsite; the verification is the point.
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Prepper Versus Daily Driver
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
diagram: compare
The right column carries friction, a workaround and a verification step - the tells of real usage.