# Explain How You Use AI in Engineering Work ### Prompt How do you use AI-assisted tools in your day-to-day engineering work? Give one concrete example, explain what you delegated to the tool, how you verified the result, what information you deliberately withheld, and whether the tool improved the final outcome. **Candidate hint:** Pick a bounded task with enough detail to show judgment. The goal is neither to advertise the tool nor to deny its limitations. ### Constraints & Assumptions - Address correctness, security, privacy, licensing, and maintainability where relevant. - Distinguish brainstorming or drafting from decisions for which you remained accountable. - Include a case in which you rejected or substantially changed generated output. - Do not reveal confidential employer information in the interview answer. ### Clarifying Questions to Ask - Would you prefer an example involving coding, debugging, documentation, or design exploration? - Should I focus on personal workflow or team-level policy and review? ### What a Strong Answer Covers - A specific task and a reason AI assistance was appropriate - Careful input boundaries and explicit human ownership - Independent verification proportional to the risk - Recognition of failure modes and evidence of correcting an output - A measured account of productivity or quality impact ### Follow-up Questions 1. What work would you never send to an external model? 2. How do you review generated code differently from code written by a teammate? 3. How would you detect that AI use is making a team faster but the codebase worse? 4. What should a team record about generated changes for future maintainers?