• seed joint optimizer in fast waypoints make it more targeted
  • use analytic ik branches for kinematic cal fixes on 052 and 056
  • fix cytometer experiment template
  • fix 056 seed joints + check it’s using serial thing by jason
  • service washer on 056

Interview Rutvik Interview strengths

  • technically good weaknesses
  • jumped to quickly into implementation

Overall, did a pretty good job - didn’t have to be prompted about how to deal with multiple cameras and how to thread to accommodate multiple client requests at the same time. Wanted to jump into implementation a bit too quickly, but talked through a reasonable design after prompted. Approach to AI code tools was also decent - reviewed generated code and identified several places that claude over-engineered. In the end, implementation didn’t work but his debugging was sensible systems debugging - and it seemed to be pretty clearly due to google meet holding control of the webcam. Tested a synthetic frame generation implementation which did work.

general interview notes: breaking things down into systems and building them piece by piece focusing on what is important walk through how they’re going to implement