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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

run it in a vm

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

They're clever. Cheaters, uh, find a way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Anon volunteers for Neuralink

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I mean at this point just commit to the fraud and pay someone who actually knows how to code to take your exam for you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I remember so little from my studies I do tend to wonder if it would really have cheating to… er… cheat. Higher education was like this horrendous ordeal where I had to perform insane memorisation tasks between binge drinking, and all so I could get my foot in the door as a dev and then start learning real skills on the job (e.g. “agile” didn’t even exist yet then, only XP. Build servers and source control were in their infancy. Unit tests the distant dreams of a madman.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

virtual machine

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Java is literally easy bro tf is there to stress about...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why do they even care? it's not like your future bosses are going to give a flying fuck how you get your code. at least, they won't until you cause the machine uprising or something.

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

They are going to care if you can maintain your code. Programming isn't "write, throw it over the fence and forget about it", you usually have to work with what you - or your coworkers - have already done. "Reading other people's code" is, like, 95% of the programmers job. Sometimes the output of a week long, intensive work is a change in one line of code, which is a result of deep understanding of a project which can span through many files, sometimes many small applications connected with each other.

ChatGPT et al aren't good at that at all. Maybe they will be in the future, but at the moment they are not.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They absolutely will. Companies hire programmers because they specifically need people who can code. Why would I hire someone to throw prompts into ChatGPT? I can do that myself. In the time it take me to write to an employee instructing them on the code I want them to create with ChatGPT, I could just throw a prompt into ChatGPT myself.

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