AI-assisted coding is everywhere now. Companies like Canva and Meta even let candidates use AI coding tools in technical interviews. So if candidates can use AI to write the code, what are interviewers actually evaluating? What does software engineering require beyond writing code, and how do you prove you can do the job?

In this workshop, students tackle 5 increasingly realistic challenges with a custom AI agent as their pair programmer. They start with familiar LeetCode problems, then move into incident log triage, API verification, and turning a script into a product anyone can use. Every challenge follows Plan, Prove, Explain. They can use AI for everything, but they must understand the output, explain their decisions, and prove the result works.

AI can write code, but it can't do your job. Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work.

A 60 minute hands on workshop for college students studying computer science or a related field.