How Do You Use AI Tools?
How do you use AI tools in your work, and what share of your coding involves them?
This comes up with recruiters, hiring managers and in automated screens. Name the tools, the tasks you hand them and the ones you do not, give a rough percentage, and explain how you check what they produce.
Answer in the first person with your own decisions, in under three minutes, and have a 60-second version ready for a round that keeps interrupting.
Hints
Hint 1
Specifics beat enthusiasm: which tool, for which tasks — scaffolding, tests, refactors, unfamiliar APIs — and where you stop trusting it.
Hint 2
Verification is the part that distinguishes engineers: tests you write yourself, reading the diff, running it before you believe it.
Solution
Show the approach
What a strong answer contains
- The tools you use and a realistic share of your coding they touch.
- Tasks where they help most and tasks you keep manual, with a reason for each.
- How you verify output: your own tests, reviewing generated code line by line, checking exception boundaries and edge cases.
- One example where the tool was wrong and how you caught it.