Best practices for getting the full security advantage.

Glasses are the simplest physical leak. A bright screen, a dark overlay, or a panel expanding and collapsing can create visible changes in the lenses or on your face. If you can interview without glasses, do it. If you need glasses, make the lighting work in your favor before the call starts.

• Use strong, even front lighting aimed at your face so the room light beats the screen light.
• Lower monitor brightness until opening and closing the overlay does not visibly change the light on your face.
• Use Aceloop dimming aggressively when the editor background and overlay background have high contrast.
• Prefer X-ray mode when you need the overlay to blend into the editor instead of creating a distinct dark or bright block.

Eye placement is the most important habit. Aceloop makes the overlay easy to reposition for a reason: the content should sit near the code, line, panel, or prompt you are actively working on. If the editor is on the left and the assistant is far to the right, your eyes will drift. That drift is more noticeable than the tool itself.

• When editing code, place the overlay near the exact region you are editing.
• When reading the prompt or thinking through approach, place the overlay near the central content area.
• When you need to read for a longer stretch, keep the overlay high and centered enough that your gaze stays natural.
• Reposition the overlay between phases instead of leaving it parked in one corner for the whole round.

X-ray mode exists for security as much as comfort. It reduces visual contrast between Aceloop and the editor, which reduces the light change on your face and makes it easier to align assistant content with the code underneath. The less the overlay behaves like a separate object, the better.

After launching Aceloop, clean the desktop. Close File Explorer windows, downloads folders, installer folders, terminals you are not using, and anything that exposes filenames or app state you do not want in view. The best environment is boring: editor, browser, call, nothing else.

• Close File Explorer after running the launcher.
• Close downloads and installer folders.
• Keep only the coding platform, the call, and the tools you actually need open.
• Silence notifications before the interview starts.

The strongest workflow is not “press Solve, read the answer, type the whole thing.” The strongest workflow is to prepare normally, read the problem normally, think normally, and use Aceloop as the rail that keeps your own attempt moving. That is why inline suggestions are so important: they are aligned with the line you are editing and they work with your thought process instead of replacing it.

• At the start, press Solve so the context is ready, but read the prompt and reason through it yourself first.
• Use inline suggestions while implementing your own approach.
• After you have a real attempt, run Debug when tests fail or edge cases break.
• After correctness, run Optimize to tighten complexity and prepare the explanation.
• Use the generated diff and summary as the smallest correction, not as a script to perform.

The natural 45-minute flow is simple. Spend the first chunk understanding the problem. Implement with inline help. Let test cases expose the bug. Then use Debug for the exact diff. Once the solution works, use Optimize to improve the approach and rehearse the tradeoff. That sequence makes Aceloop feel like a teammate inside your process instead of a separate answer source you are copying from.

Aceloop is powerful enough to give a complete answer early. That does not mean the complete-answer workflow is the best workflow. If you use the tool like a teleprompter, the problem is no longer the software architecture; the problem is the performance.

• Pressing Solve immediately and typing the entire complete solution without reading the problem.
• Scrolling through a long answer while your eyes leave the editor for extended stretches.
• Ignoring your existing variable names and typing a polished canonical solution that does not match your own code.
• Making large, unexplained jumps in approach without using tests, comments, or reasoning to bridge the change.
• Leaving the overlay far away from the editor so every glance becomes obvious.