Chapter 18: The proof

Everything so far can be prepared at home. The rest happens with someone watching.

Reviewing live in an interview

Reading code you didn't write in front of someone, saying what you are looking for and what you aren't getting to. Going by what hiring teams write, they are watching your order and your honesty at least as much as what you find.

When an agent writes the code, reading is most of what is left of your job, so this is a fair test of it. Time is always short. Saying "I read the payment handler and the migration, and I did not get to the tests" is a better answer than having looked at everything at speed.

Say it to your agent

“Generate a 400-line pull request on this repo with three seeded defects: one in auth, one off-by-one, and one test that passes for the wrong reason. Don't tell me where. Give me 10 minutes, then score what I found, what order I read it in, and what I said I hadn't read.”

The workshop

Name a word, or describe what you mean in everyday language.