Red Flags That Sound Junior

1. Why This Lesson Exists

Interviewers pattern-match. Years of interview loops taught them something specific: which phrases and moves come from candidates who have read about AI systems but never run them. A single strong match can tilt a borderline decision against you.

The good news is that the flags are learnable. Each one has a senior replacement. And most replacements are only one sentence longer than the flag they replace. You are not being asked to know more. You are being asked to say what you know in the order a practitioner would.