Code Room
Vibe codingMediumvc-g199
Subject Ai prompt specLevel Mid–Senior~18 minCommon in Networking & APIs interviewsIndustries Software development, Technology

Question

You're asking an AI agent to add pagination to a Go REST endpoint that lists a feed of events ordered by creation time, where rows are constantly being inserted and deleted. Write the spec that produces correct, stable pagination at scale. What pagination model, ordering, and acceptance criteria do you require, and what must the cursor encode? Then describe what a naive prompt ('add pagination with page and limit') produces that breaks on a live feed.

What a strong answer looks like

Treat the AI’s output as a draft to verify, not an answer to trust. Name the specific flaw and the input that triggers it, say how you’d catch it — tests, edge cases, reading critically — and how you’d re-prompt or decompose to get it right.

Describe your solution

Vibe coding: describe the solution in plain language (or narrate it) and the coach grades your approach. Generating runnable code from your description is coming next.

Run or narrate your approach, then ask the coach.