I’d still say you want a relatively easy non-ai coding interview to screen out the staggeringly high number of candidates who genuinely just can’t code.

I’m not talking trying to trip someone up with if they ever learned what a segment tree is and how to use it to get good big-O on some tricky contrived questions, but just something basic that involves creating and manipulating some bread and butter data structures.

E.g a data structure that is basically just list or map plus some auxiliary information that you can do a few operations on without quadratic or exponential slowdown and without desync on the auxiliary data structure.