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A take-home used to measure whether someone could code. In 2026, the raw output measures who used their AI tools best. The signal is still there, but it moved. Here is where it went and how to actually read it.
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After running hundreds of senior interviews, the signal is rarely about algorithms. It is about judgment, blast radius, and how someone reasons when the problem is underspecified.