Brute-Forcing My Algorithmic Ignorance with an LLM in 7 Days

A developer gets a last‑minute shot at a Google interview and does what half the internet secretly dreams of: turns an AI chatbot into a weeklong personal tutor. No code, just concepts, patterns, and metaphors—an AI cram school to survive the dreaded puzzle gauntlet. Cue the comment section fireworks under the post.

Fans showed up with pom‑poms. One reader swore that learning with an AI feels better than a class, because it adapts to you. Another said they used the same approach for “super‑hard crypto stuff” and it clicked—with caveats. The wholesome crowd applauded the author for being honest about using AI as a learning tool, not a cheating machine.

But the skeptics were loud too. A meticulous commenter called the write‑up “light on details,” pressing for how the list of interview tasks was made and what actually happened in the interview. And then came the cynics with the match and gasoline: a fiery take blasted Google’s hiring as “LeetCode BS,” declaring it used to be cool to work there and calling this AI‑assisted prep an inflection point where the process eats itself. Memes flew: “LeetCode vs Cheatcode,” “AI is the new flashcards,” and “Google interviews: Dark Souls, now with a guide.” The verdict? Half inspiration, half existential crisis about tech interviews—and whether AI just broke them for good.