Re:Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown Uni...
by account42 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @04:36AM
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> tho annoying when you lose points to "typos"
IME, that kind of nitpicky grading mostly happens when the exam was designed too easy and does not depend on the medium.
> Remember, the hand written code is also harder for reviewers to grade! You have to manually run the code in your head, for example
Which you really need to do anyway because code that is broken due to a brainfart and code that is broken because of a fundamental misunderstanding should not receive the same grade.
IME, that kind of nitpicky grading mostly happens when the exam was designed too easy and does not depend on the medium.
> Remember, the hand written code is also harder for reviewers to grade! You have to manually run the code in your head, for example
Which you really need to do anyway because code that is broken due to a brainfart and code that is broken because of a fundamental misunderstanding should not receive the same grade.