Notes on building AI systems, shipping products, and what actually works in practice.
Most STAR advice online is templated and toothless. This is what STAR actually looks like when you use it well — pacing rules, common failure modes, three worked examples, and how to handle the AI-era stories that didn't exist three years ago.
The 6 behavioral interview questions every engineer gets asked in 2026, the STAR framework, and a worked example for each — with the AI-tools question loops are now adding.