Check Whether a Work Test Is AI-Solvable
When to use it
Find out whether your current take-home can be solved by pasting it into an AI assistant, before your candidates find out for you.
The prompt
Here is a take-home assessment we send candidates for a {{Job Title}} role. THE ASSESSMENT: {{paste the full instructions, plus a description of any starter code or data}} WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO TELL US: {{the skills or judgment calls it was designed to test}} OUR POLICY ON AI USE DURING IT: {{allowed / allowed if disclosed / not allowed / never stated}} Attempt it the way a candidate using an AI assistant would. Then tell me: 1. How close your output gets to a strong human submission, and what a reviewer would have to notice to tell them apart. 2. For each part of the exercise: trivial for AI, partly assisted, or still dependent on judgment and context you didn't have. 3. Whether, given point 2, the exercise still measures what it's supposed to. Be blunt if it doesn't. 4. Two or three changes that make it harder to fully outsource without making it longer — a decision with a trade-off to defend, messy or contradictory inputs, a short written rationale. 5. A 15-minute follow-up conversation plan that would expose a submission the candidate can't explain. 6. One line I could add to the instructions that states our AI policy plainly.
Tip
Banning AI outright mostly tests who follows rules. The sturdier fix is a follow-up conversation about the submission: a candidate who did the thinking can walk you through their trade-offs, and one who pasted the brief into a chatbot can't.
How to use it
Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or whichever assistant you use, then replace every {{bracketed}} part with your own detail. The more specific and messier your input, the better the output — a model given raw notes has more to work with than one given a tidy summary you wrote first.
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