There's also the time where we were asked to read temperature from a sensor, and everyone went straight to chatgpt. Meanwhile, first search result, full repo with full noob instructions.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is chatgpt the default starting point for inexperienced / early career/ students now?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As a CS student, yes absolutely. These people then complain about paper exams and when the code gets complex enough for the AI to make mistakes. I've seen a few people drop out in programming 2, and my web 1 class was decimated because we were doing more than leetcode exercises. It's a real problem that so many people are using it as a crutch.

[–] thisisnotgoingwell 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not a developer but I write a lot of code for network infrastructure automation... when I started learning I was already a network engineer so I figured it would be a cakewalk. I think it takes a certain type of person (patience, persistence, tenacity, etc) to excel in a computer science field. I'd reckon a lot of young people think the jobs are all pretty sweet and cushy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why are you surprised?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I'm neither surprised nor unsurprised. I'm middle aged and don't have much insight into what university students are doing day to day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Computer networking was the most complicated class I took. How can GitHub be too complicated compared to the class? Or is it a non low level computer networking class?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is literally the third year of the diploma. This is not even source control. This is literally installing the software provided with the instructions provided

But as I seen both, networking is easier than programming IMO. Networking is mostly knowing a lot of things to be able to reuse that knowledge Programming is actually creating things and solutions to problems, and is more complicated, at least for me. But I still prefer it as I actually feel mentally challenged (pun intended)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

My personal issue with github is more the placement of the actual download links, sometimes its harder to find than the real download button on a dodgy pirate site without ad-block.