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Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by shinjitsu on Monday July 12, 2021 @04:41PM (#27814825)
> give you something that _looks_ correct without caring whether it actually is

Oh this is going to make teaching intro to computer science sooooo 'interesting'.

It wouldn't be so bad if the students looked at the generated code and understood it, but experience tells me most of them will not.

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Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by staticassertion on Monday July 12, 2021 @05:16PM (#27815239)
Students will always cheat tbh. I doubt this will radically change anything with regards to that.
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