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Why Strong Engineers Fail Coding Interviews: A Scorecard Autopsy

The strongest candidate I ever voted no on solved the problem in eleven minutes. Clean. Optimal. Caught the edge case I normally have to hint at twice.

  • Strong engineers fail coding interviews due to poor signal density, not coding ability.
  • Common failure modes include silent solving, coding without scoping, and treating hints as insults.
  • Evidence and quotable details are crucial for scoring, while ambiguity defaults to a rejection.

Prologue - What is MEM-ABBREV?

Prologue - What is MEM-ABBREV? MEM-ABBREV is a structured self-contained protocol for making human-AI collaborative reasoning more honest, more persistent, and more resistant to the systematic…

My 369 Merged Pull Requests On GitHub, Every Single One Linked And Verified

As of August 26, 2026, GitHub reports that 398 merged pull requests carry my name on the author line. Twenty nine of those live inside repositories that I own myself, so I removed them from this count…

  • 369 out of 398 pull requests merged on August 26, 2026
  • 39 merges belong to projects I own, excluded from count
  • Verified 369 merges via GitHub search API directly

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