I used to like questions/tasks about code and repo architecture because it's a choice and there is no "best" answer but there are bad ones: the ones without thought.

I'm not so sure that I would do that in 2025 anymore because it's easy now to fake a single answer and emulate thoughtfulness without actually thinking. If I were hiring now, I'd fall back to "attitude over everything" and not really test coding skills.

In my experience, getting set up is usually the hardest part.

I was thinking a good programming interview task would be to just have somebody set up their preferred stack from scratch. Like how to they approach CI, webpack, database. Most people never do this because its done once by smart people and rarely touched again 

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It can still sometimes be hard to remember the boilerplate or remember which boilerplate goes where. Ai is really useful for that kinda thing 