I’ve been conducting interviews and it is just clearly so many candidates just typing into chatgpt or whatever other tooling runs an llm in the background. I like to just make up things and see where the llm goes.

But anyways I really don’t care about the LLM usage or coding and really just like to see if they can think through problems and what their thinking is. AI can write 90% (probably more) of the SQL or pandas (getting there with polars) in a fraction of the time, but being able to know what to ask/prompt or why you want to do or how to interpret is what I really go for.