Practice Anthropic Coding Question | Real Coding Interviews

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Simulate a simple instruction sequence starting from index zero.
Track executed instruction indices to identify when execution revisits a previous step.
Return the index of the first repeated instruction, or -1 if the program terminates normally.

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