Why I Built Scenar.io - An AI-Powered DevOps Interview Practice Tool

Why I Built Scenar.io How It Started I was prepping for a Google SRE interview and struggling with the debugging portion. Not the knowledge - I knew the commands, I'd fixed real incidents at work. The problem was practicing under interview conditions: thinking out loud, explaining your reasoning, having someone challenge your approach. I started using Claude in the terminal to simulate it. I'd describe a scenario, ask it to act as a broken server, and practice talking through my debugging process. After a few weeks I realized I was spending more time setting up the prompts than actually practicing. I had this whole system - hidden server states, clue tracking, difficulty levels - and it hit me: this should just be a tool. I looked at what already existed. SadServers makes you type exact commands into a real terminal. LeetCode is for coding, not ops. Flashcards test recall, not problem-solving. Nothing let you practice the way interviews actually work - talking through your approach, ge