Abnormal AI Software Engineer interview experience

I went into what should have been a straightforward assessment, but during the live coding segment the interviewer kept pushing me to keep talking while I coded, and the whole interaction became a fight with the tools rather than a focus on solving the problem.

I was using an AI-enabled editor, and the autocomplete/agent behavior constantly changed or tried to erase my implementation. It made it really hard to concentrate on the task itself because I wasn’t just reasoning about the requirements—I was also managing the system that was trying to “help” me overwrite what I’d written. By the