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Design code assistant (GitHub Copilot / Cursor) + DSA review

Context construction; acceptance / retention metrics; latency budget.

DSA · NeetCode 2-D DP

  • Interview questions to prep

    1. State the DP. How does it relate to edit distance and to longest-common-substring?
    2. Space-optimize from O(m·n) to O(min(m, n)).

ML System Design · Code assistant

  • Design GitHub Copilot / CursorML System DesignGitHub

    Interview questions to prep

    1. Walk me through designing a GitHub Copilot-style code assistant.
    2. How do you handle context: open files, repo structure, project conventions?
    3. How do you measure quality (acceptance rate, retention, latency)?

References & further reading