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by galkk 53 days ago
It was good for you but you don’t address reality of life.

Here’s one possible scenario: After graduation, you (or somebody else) shares the program with friend, with a promise to not to share further. Soon enough, it’s on everybody’s calculator. What did real educational thing for you, is just cheat where one needs to press the right buttons and get the right answer. This completely destroys the educational purpose, but significant amount of people just don’t care and want to get a pass.

Yes, there always is a counter weapon by teachers: for example, to point to random line and ask to explain and whatever, but this is not (always) scalable.

I’ve seen this in reality in college, when there was a cs/database course final project implementation, written in Delphi (very popular at a time in xussr), that was passed from year to year, that the professors and ta were so fed up, that I got almost auto pass because I wrote mine in C++…

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To summarize - the overinreasing amount of pure slop is seen everywhere. Regular multi-thousand line prs where author didn’t even bother to look into code, written by ai. Just prompt -> commit, push, or. Nobody wants to deal with that

Same is happening here - u it’s not to punish people who use tool in proper context, it’s to filter out people who just don’t give a fuck.