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The most interesting trend is the rise of the "Copilot" for system design. Newer GitHub repos aren't just static markdown files anymore. They are interactive Mermaid.js diagrams. They are Python scripts that simulate rate limiting. They are Terraform configs that spin up a mock "TinyURL" on AWS.

The original course authors are now in an arms race. Because the answers are public on GitHub, interviewers have adapted. You can't just recite the Grokking answer for "Design WhatsApp" anymore. The interviewer will interrupt you: "Okay, but what happens if the WebSocket server crashes mid-handshake?" grokking the system design interview github