>They excel at DSA, but fail at system design, or even low level design. Leetcode was the gate for a while, then system design was added on to it. >Leetcode i

>They excel at DSA, but fail at system design, or even low level design. Leetcode was the gate for a while, then system design was added on to it. >Leetcode is great as a fun coding exercise. I also think they help the craft like katas help martial artist to practice. I know this is completely subjective, but it bothers me to solve toy problems that people have likely already solved (and now ChatGPT might be able to point you in a general direction given a plainly written problem description). And practicing it for a muscle reflex effect seems silly because you're unlikely to run into these again. However on the flip side, even business problems which are composed of things that people have solved before still seem novel, so I'm more engaged on those kinds.