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In the technical screen you'll get a vague complaint on purpose

Say what this means in practice: "Which mode were you in, which model, what was the exact prompt and what did you expect versus see?"

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Interview move

In the technical screen you'll get a vague complaint on purpose. Don't theorize. Drive to a repro: "Which mode were you in, which model, what was the exact prompt and what did you expect versus see?"

Narrate the surface you've isolated as you go. Interviewers are grading whether you turn "the AI is dumb" into a single reproducible scenario, not whether you guess the root cause on the first try.

Say it like this

"Totally hear you that the suggestions felt off. Let's pin it down together - were you in Ask or Agent and which model was selected? If you can paste the exact prompt and the diff it produced, I can reproduce it on my end and see where the context went sideways."