Author name: /u/Cold_Bass3981

I used to be all-in on cloud APIs. For any side project, I’d just grab an OpenAI or Anthropic key and not think twice. It was convenient. No worrying about VRAM, super fast responses, and I could spin something up in minutes. But that “pay-as-you-go” c…

I’ve spent the last half of 2025 in interview hell. I walked into my first few rounds prepared for deep math proofs, Transformer internals, and heavy LeetCode, but almost none of that came up. What they asked was way more practical, and I failed the f…