Should coding interviews allow AI tools? 🤔

Genuine question for the community.

Most technical interviews today explicitly ban AI - no Copilot, no ChatGPT, no Claude. 🚫

But at the actual job? Every engineer uses these tools daily. Amazon, Google, Meta - AI is embedded in the workflow. 🛠️

So we're testing candidates on a skill (writing code without help) that the job no longer requires.

But the counterargument is real too: if you allow AI, how do you separate someone who understands the code from someone who just pastes what the AI gives them? 🤷

We've been thinking about this a lot and believe the answer isn't "allow or ban" - it's measuring how someone uses AI. Do they verify? Do they recover when it's wrong? Do they blindly accept or edit thoughtfully?

Curious where this community lands 👇

🔴 Ban AI in interviews - it's cheating 🟢 Allow AI - it reflects real work 🧠 Allow AI but measure how they use it

💀 The whole interview model is broken regardless

What's your take?