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Design code assistant (GitHub Copilot / Cursor) + DSA review
Context construction; acceptance / retention metrics; latency budget.
DSA · NeetCode 2-D DP
- Longest Common SubsequenceDSA · 2-D DP
Interview questions to prep
- State the DP. How does it relate to edit distance and to longest-common-substring?
- Space-optimize from O(m·n) to O(min(m, n)).
ML System Design · Code assistant
Interview questions to prep
- Walk me through designing a GitHub Copilot-style code assistant.
- How do you handle context: open files, repo structure, project conventions?
- How do you measure quality (acceptance rate, retention, latency)?
References & further reading
- Anthropic — Building Effective Agents ↗Anthropic
- Eugene Yan — applied ML writing ↗Eugene Yan