What is jailbreaking, what are the common techniques, and how do you defend against it?
Jailbreaking is the adversarial sport of steering a model around its own safety training. What matters is naming the technique families and treating defense as a layered, never-finished arms race, not a one-time patch.
Updated Sep 2026 · Grounded in real GenAI, LLM, and AI/ML engineering interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
Jailbreaking is the adversarial sport of steering a model around its own safety training. What matters is naming the technique families and treating defense as a layered, never-finished arms race, not a one-time patch.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
