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Re:“Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight As” by Der_Einzige on Saturday September 24, 2022 @12:48PM (#32964355)
Forgot kids cheating with text generators, many FAANG engineers got their position by using leetcode solving AIs, and many of these FAANG engineers are being promoted right now.

Blind users are unhappy of course.

Re:“Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight As” by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @12:51PM (#32964395)
>many FAANG engineers got their position by using leetcode solving AIs

What?

Re:“Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight As” by alex_duf on Saturday September 24, 2022 @02:01PM (#32965102)
I feel like OP used an AI to generate a comment
Re:“Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight As” by openbankerX on Saturday September 24, 2022 @03:36PM (#32965886)
I feel like most of the comments here are AI.
Re:“Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight As” by 988747 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @04:07PM (#32966139)
Actually, I'm starting to think: How useful can Github Copilot be to solve leetcode challenges? If you give it a comment like this:

// find the indexes of two elements of an array that sum to X

and a function header that was prompted to you by your leetcode engine, will it be able to fill it with correct code?

I mean: many people do Leetcode challenges for fun (or profit) and then publish their solutions on Github, so they were definitely part of Copilot training set.

Re:“Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight As” by cercatrova on Saturday September 24, 2022 @04:42PM (#32966388)
I have Copilot and had coincidentally also been doing Leetcode just for fun, and yes, Copilot absolutely does give you the entire answer, if only because the questions are standardized and part of the GitHub training set.

Therefore, I turn off Copilot in any codebases I don't want to know the answers to, such as my Leetcode directory.