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Morgan Zhou

DevOps enthusiast automating all the things.

Location London, UK Joined Joined on 

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UC Berkeley

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Frontend Developer at InnovateTech

Put the Rubric in the Take-Home Zip

Put the Rubric in the Take-Home Zip

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Grade the Receipt, Not the Agent Demo

Grade the Receipt, Not the Agent Demo

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The Take-Home Starts With a Red Log

The Take-Home Starts With a Red Log

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Hand Every Candidate the Same Machine

Hand Every Candidate the Same Machine

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Grade the Loop Budget Before You Grade the PR

Grade the Loop Budget Before You Grade the PR

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Put a Dead End in the Take-Home

Put a Dead End in the Take-Home

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Don't Page on a Null Status

Don't Page on a Null Status

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Grade Replay Before You Grade Style

Grade Replay Before You Grade Style

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The Retry Ticket Is the Interview

The Retry Ticket Is the Interview

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A Take-Home Packet That Catches Invented Infrastructure

A Take-Home Packet That Catches Invented Infrastructure

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Grade the Free Model Like a Take-Home

Grade the Free Model Like a Take-Home

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Mutation Testing on a Budget: Let a Free AI Model Sabotage Your Code

Mutation Testing on a Budget: Let a Free AI Model Sabotage Your Code

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The Free Model Server Smoke Test: 10 Minutes to Decide If It's Production-Worthy

The Free Model Server Smoke Test: 10 Minutes to Decide If It's Production-Worthy

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Let a Free AI Server Be Your Second Pair of Eyes on Every PR

Let a Free AI Server Be Your Second Pair of Eyes on Every PR

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Don't Upgrade Your AI Plan Until You've Benchmarked the Free One

Don't Upgrade Your AI Plan Until You've Benchmarked the Free One

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Audit Your AI Reviewer's Drift with a Nightly Control Run

Audit Your AI Reviewer's Drift with a Nightly Control Run

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A Free AI Server Is a Job Candidate. Interview It Like One.

A Free AI Server Is a Job Candidate. Interview It Like One.

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The Take-Home Test I Give Every AI Code Reviewer

The Take-Home Test I Give Every AI Code Reviewer

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Free AI Pull Request Reviews: A 20-Minute Setup

Free AI Pull Request Reviews: A 20-Minute Setup

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Stop Picking the Model First. Pick Where It Runs.

Stop Picking the Model First. Pick Where It Runs.

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Free, Self-Hosted, or Paid: Score Your Constraints First

Free, Self-Hosted, or Paid: Score Your Constraints First

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Free AI Coding Access vs. Self-Hosting: Pick Your Failure Mode

Free AI Coding Access vs. Self-Hosting: Pick Your Failure Mode

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A New Open-Weight Coding Model Drops Every Week. Here's How I Smoke-Test Them Before Trusting a Single Line

A New Open-Weight Coding Model Drops Every Week. Here's How I Smoke-Test Them Before Trusting a Single Line

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Cheap Seats for Agent Evals: Scoring Free Coding Models Against a Task Suite You Own

Cheap Seats for Agent Evals: Scoring Free Coding Models Against a Task Suite You Own

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Aider vs Claude Code in 2026: Open Source Freedom or Anthropic's Polish?

Aider vs Claude Code in 2026: Open Source Freedom or Anthropic's Polish?

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Quarantine the Output: Running Model-Generated Code Without Handing It Your Laptop

Quarantine the Output: Running Model-Generated Code Without Handing It Your Laptop

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Your AI Agent Has Shell Access. Here's How I Test What It Can Actually Touch.

Your AI Agent Has Shell Access. Here's How I Test What It Can Actually Touch.

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A Repeatable Harness for Catching Regressions in AI-Generated Code

A Repeatable Harness for Catching Regressions in AI-Generated Code

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Stop Trusting Vibes: A Repeatable Harness for Testing LLM-Generated Code on a Free Server

Stop Trusting Vibes: A Repeatable Harness for Testing LLM-Generated Code on a Free Server

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