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2026
- The Coding Interview Is Dead, and a Model Killed It
Two months ago I called the LeetCode loop a toll booth that measures stress. This week an engineer at Anthropic removed the coding interview from their team's loops because it 'no longer provides signal'. Thirteen years of research didn't kill the format. Free puzzles did.
- A Year of LeetCode for a Job You Will Never Use It In
The industry asks candidates to grind algorithm puzzles for months to get a job that consists of reading legacy code and arguing about tickets. The research says the process mostly measures stress. And in 2026 the puzzles are the one part of the job a model does perfectly.