Demonstrate effective AI-assisted coding workflow

During an interview that permits an AI coding assistant, you receive a broad, well-defined assignment, such as building a TCP chat server. The interviewer then poses follow-up questions like:

• What led you to phrase your AI prompt in that particular way?
• Do the recommended libraries or frameworks fit the problem? Explain your reasoning.
• Do you accept the assistant's design choices and any extra features it introduced?
• What approach would you take to test the solution?
• If you had to add a new feature, how would you keep using AI productively while checking that the result is correct?

Describe a solid, professional process for leveraging AI in the interview without surrendering your own engineering judgment or sense of ownership.

Overview: This question assesses how well a candidate works with AI-assisted coding workflows: crafting prompts, choosing tools and libraries, critiquing design, planning tests, and iterating on features while still showing engineering judgment and ownership.

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