Reviewing take-home exercises. Here's a tip about AI use that I did myself (a genius, clearly) and am surprised to not see more – be explicit!

We can tell. And honestly I would expect you to use *some* AI by now. But the constant guessing game is distracting. Unless the task description explicitly tells you to AI maxx it, do this:

Keep a commit history. First, get as far as you can without AI. Commit.