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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.