Ask HN: Can LeetCode (or similar) keep critical thinking sharp in the AI era?
These days, at least in my current situation, LC feels less like interview preparation and more like a mental gym for technical thinking, i don't like the LC grind, so i just do 1/2 problems per week just for fun. Have you felt this too, or are there better ways to develop (don't lose) this way of thinking?
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[ 0.31 ms ] story [ 13.2 ms ] threadCould also find some algorithm engineering course floating around and try and optimize a LeetCode solution you made for your specific hardware or their judging server learning what benchmarks to use. MIT has one but probably others: https://jshun.csail.mit.edu/6506-f26/schedule.html or if LC doesn't allow to download test inputs try competition programming archives they give you the test data https://usaco.org/index.php?page=training
With AI writing an entire algorithm test bench is pretty easy but what do you test, what stats are meaningful, vectorized registers, all those real world things.