A Columbia University student named Roy Lee, just 21 years old, got into trouble for making an AI tool to cheat during coding job interviews at big tech companies like Amazon and Meta. His tool, called Interview Coder, helped users answer questions in real-time while they were being interviewed. After the tool gained popularity online for tricking these big companies, Roy was suspended from Columbia and faced backlash from Amazon and Meta.
Instead of giving up, Roy created a new tool called Cluely, which helps users cheat on all sorts of things, including interviews and exams. Cluely works through hidden windows in your browser. When people criticized his startup for being a way to cheat, Roy fired back by saying, “In the past, people said calculators and Google were cheating. Now they are calling AI cheating. But we are not stopping. Cluely just got $5.3 million in funding to build the future faster.”
After launching Interview Coder, Roy was told by everyone to quit, even after being kicked out of Columbia and blacklisted by Amazon. But he didn’t listen. He said, “I learned that you have to take big risks if you want to succeed. I hope this message inspires others. Cluely is my biggest project yet, and I am proud of it.”
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