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Okay, the model just gave you this code. What do you do before you accept it?

A strong answer treats the accept as taking ownership, reads the diff in a fixed order, and can name the things that get a diff rejected on sight

What an AI-prepared candidate might say

Before I accept anything I read the whole diff and make sure I understand what it's doing. If I can't explain it, I don't accept it, simple as that. I check that it handles errors and edge cases, that it matches our codebase conventions, and that any APIs it calls are real and used correctly. Then I run the tests, or write a quick one if nothing covers the change, and I only build on the code once it passes. If a piece is unclear I'll ask the model to explain it or simplify it. My rule is basically to assume nothing about generated code and verify everything that matters. The speed of generation should never push code through faster than I can actually evaluate it.

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Why the accept is an ownership transfer, the fixed reading order that keeps your attention off the happy path, and the diffs that get thrown out before the read even finishes.

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What happens to the protocol under incident pressure, which checks compress, which ones never go away, and how skipped depth gets written down instead of forgotten.

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