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 There's no perfect solution — "Developer Experience, "Performance & Scaleability,", and "Code Quality" mean different things in different contexts. Use your best judgement, and explicitly call out any assumptions you made along the way. Remember: there aren't any tricks here, and we review every submission with the best intent.
 
+## AI Tools
+
+With the rapid pace and innovation of AI for software engineering, we have found tools such as Github CoPilot, ChatGPT and Codeium to be helpful in enabling us to be more productive in writing code. You are free to use these tools (heck we encourage it) with this technical assessment but keep in mind you need to understand the code suggestions they generate if you use them.
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 ## Submission
 
 Fork & PR
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 ## Loom Submission
 
-At Contra, we prize great communication over all else. In addition to great written communication, we love concise Loom demos that capture your personality and passion for your work, and convey what you can't in writing. As part of your submission, attach a <5 minute Loom to your PR description that introduces yourself, walks through your code, and the decisions you made along the way.
+At Contra, we prize great communication over all else. In addition to great written communication, we love concise Loom demos that capture your personality and passion for your work, and convey what you can't in writing. As part of your submission, attach a <5 minute Loom to your PR description that introduces yourself, walks through your code, and the decisions you made along the way. Let us know what your experience was like with AI assisted tooling, what portions you were able to use with them and what modifications (if any) you needed to make.