• @SoftestSapphic
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    323 hours ago

    This person is LARPing as a CS major on 4chan

    It’s not possible to write functional code without understanding it, even with ChatGPT’s help.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 hour ago

        Giving me flashbacks to a college instructor that marked my entire functioning code block, written on paper, as wrong because I did not clearly make a ; on one line of about 100 lines. I argued that a compiler would mark that in the real world, but he countered with "It still won’t run without that ; " That made me rethink my career path in CS. Fuck that guy.

    • billwashere
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      32 hours ago

      You would think eventually some of it would sink in. I mean I use LLMs to write code all the time but it’s very rarely 100% correct, often with syntax errors or logic problems. Having to fix that stuff is an excellent way to at least learn the syntax.

      • @SoftestSapphic
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        If you copy and paste from ChatGPT your code won’t compile.

        You need to know what the peices of code do and how to peice them together to make it work.

        Which is kind of impossible to do without understanding it