If (1) coding homework sucks, and (2) coding live sucks, how do you propose assessing a candidate's coding ability? Take their word for it? Absent a large open

If (1) coding homework sucks, and (2) coding live sucks, how do you propose assessing a candidate's coding ability? Take their word for it? Absent a large open-source repository or other public corpus of work, you generally have to rely on one or the other.