Weekly AI Observations: Interviews in the Vibe Coding Era

Cover created with Nano Banana Our team’s interview format just changed. Leetcode puzzles are out; building a full feature is in. If you don’t code with AI—and your typing speed isn’t absurd—you won’t finish. It sounds like a tooling upgrade, but it’s actually reshaping what we mean by an “excellent engineer.” The Gap Gets Wider In classic algorithm interviews, the difference between failing and…