I Built a Translator for Spatial Thinking (because I Can't Interview in Python)
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The author created a tool to help with spatial reasoning for FAANG interviews, as they struggled with Python interviews, and shared their experience on their blog.
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And I can't write FizzBuzz. Or anything really, not until I can see it. And then I have to get it out, find the structure, the shape of the solution in code. It's often not pretty but it works. And it scales. Because I'm not writing code, I'm extracting structure.
Now I have help. I built a translator. A real-time viewport for my agentic conversations. A context container in the shape of a detective case. All wired into emacs.
Now I have words for the shapes in my head. Intent to reality is modeling virtual clay.
Come see how