Overall it’s a very good read, really enjoyed the author voice and style

> I don’t think she was laughing two years later when I was TAing the class and we observed a fairly distinct gap of about 40 percentage points between the take-home test and the one administered in-person.

40pp is massive. Take homes are pretty much dead at that point. And not just in schools, but also for interviews. I don’t see how you can get a meaningful signal, it’s guaranteed they will be made using AI.

I had very few take-homes in school (discounting project courses which were very time consuming). One of the problems with take-homes in most interview situations is that, at least for developer jobs, the reality (whatever the stated guardrails are) is that this will be at least a weekend project. That said, I've spent multiple days traveling and doing related things for an on-site interview which I realize not everyone here would find acceptible.

The take home tasks are only useful for assessment if paired with an oral question and answer session with the instructor about the work turned in.

It becomes apparent really fast which students just delegated the work to AI.

Of course it’s also much more effort for the instructor.

Tangental, but is Leetcode dead too? Part of me could foresee Leetcode being believed to be a stronger indicator now, since it would be unlikely that someone that can answer those questions would know absolutely nothing about programming.

Then again, with LLMs, learning to answer those questions is probably easier now than ever.

I haven't applied for a job in a decade, so I am utterly clueless on the current landscape.

Of course the take home interview assignments will be made using AI. Isn't that the point? For most white collar jobs we should hire candidates who can make effective use of AI.