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Design and implement a small airfield scheduler that sequences takeoffs and landings while handling runway conflicts and changing priorities with help from an AI assistant.
1. Problem Statement
Design and implement navigation for one warehouse robot. Establish your architecture yourself, use the AI assistant incrementally, and expect follow-up requirements.
2. Live Coding Format
Work in the provided coding workspace while explaining your decisions to the live interviewer. Validation may use inline tests, examples, comments, or a verbal walkthrough.
3. Key Focus Areas
- 1Project and API design
- 2Path-planning correctness
- 3Extensibility
- 4Collision strategy
- 5AI workflow ownership
4. What Strong Candidates Should Demonstrate
- Create a clean architecture from a nearly empty brief.
- Use an AI assistant incrementally instead of generating an entire application at once.
- Extend a single-agent design to handle concurrent movement and collisions.
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