There is nothing leetcode-specific about this cheating platform. OP just angled it that way because HN readers would lap it up that way.
Assuming someone was using this cheating platform, how would you run your interviews? Wouldn’t this screw up the actual legit interviews(whatever that is…) too?
I'm looking for people who can demonstrate that they have faced challenges and overcame them, that they communicate their decisions effectively, and that they can learn new information quickly, can receive and incorporate feedback, and so on.
Can't really cheat your way out of that.
I realize that this one project isn’t the only way to cheat in interviews, but I still think it’s naive to think that this tech will only harm what you perceive to be “bad interviews” and not affect your own preferred interviews. At the absolute minimum, it adds additional overhead to performing interviews where you have to also be aware and try to figure out if the interviewee is being coached like this.
Right now people "cheat" by using an IDE, but no one has trouble with that (and rightly so!).
So why should I care if someone is using LLMs to pass the interview and do their job if they are being successful?