The Take-Home That Runs Out of Tokens Mid-Request
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A candidate's repo arrived last month with a tidy README and a demo that worked. I cloned it, ran the tests, then pointed the summarizer at a model that dies after six tokens. The endpoint answered 200 OK with {"summary": ""} . Every test was green. Nothing worked. That is the take-home I now hand…
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- 2026-10-27 12:36 · DEV Community — AI
The Take-Home That Runs Out of Tokens Mid-Request