Comment by pzo

Interviews like leetcode on whiteboard only testing your reasoning not if your solution will execute out of the box in zero shot style. Humans solve problem in iterative way that's why fast feedback loop and access to tools is essential. When you start coding compiler or linter hints you that you forgot to close some braces or miss semicolon. Compiler tips you that API in new version changed, intellisense hints you what methods you can use in current context and what parameters you can use and their types. Once you execute program you get runtimes tips that maybe you missed installing some node or python package. When you installing packages you get hints that maybe one package has additional dependency and 2 package version are not compatible. Command line tools like `ls` tells you what's project structure etc.