Dale EmeryMar 20
How is AI affecting enrollments in college computer science programs? Lots more enrollments from people wanting to work with/on/for AI technology? Lots fewer because people think CS skills are now irrelevant or will be by the time they graduate? Something else?
Show threadThird FoundationMar 20

@dhemery I just read about an intern -- his internship was the last thing he had to do to get a degree (somewhere in Europe?)

The intern's supervisor asked the kid to do the things his resume claimed he could do.

Sum up a column of numbers: rather than copy the text to an app or tool on his computer, the kid used a pocket calculator--and got the wrong sum because he mistyped the numbers.

When asked to use a spreadsheet to sum the numbers, he could not even copy and paste nor make use of the spreadsheet at all.

He had been dictating interview and test/homework questions to a chatbot.

But he almost got a degree in computer science.

Show threadDale Emery

@rayckeith Ugh.

I wonder how professors (or, I guess, their teaching assistants) are grading. Perhaps they're using AI and there are no humans involved in the assessment.

I wonder how many hiring managers are able to do the kind of basic assessment that that one did.

Mar 20 at 10:01pmWeb
Show threadThird FoundationMar 21

@dhemery decades ago, a contractor, in response to a coding guideline to prefer symbolic constants over raw numbers, started doing this:

#define ONE 1
#define TWO 2

I quizzed him about programming and had to recommend firing him.