The Psychotic Network FerretSome AI coder: "I" wrote this new thing that searches for hidden strings in files.
Most youngins: Oh wow, that is so useful, I wish I had this years ago!
Us greybeards: Congratulations, you reinvented grep.
This is absolutely a subtoot.
B'ad Samurai 🐐🇺🇦@nuintari searching and ordering was a pretty common and early CS assignment. Still true? Or pointless because all students vibe code it?
@badsamurai Yeah, somewhere along the way, people forgot that the point of education is the learning, and the letter grade was just a status indicator.
Now, the letter grade has become the goal of most. With modern AI implementations, the learning is just busy work that gets in the way.
Every time I hear someone say they are learning coding with AI assistance, I die a little inside.
Fritz Adalis@badsamurai @nuintari
I mean the whole point is to teach O(n) etc., I hope students can't complete the curriculum without any understanding.
(Says the comp sci dropout)
@FritzAdalis @nuintari my mechanical and materials engineering is basically how to buy nice knives.
Nate@badsamurai @nuintari been coding for years, decided to finally get a bachelor's degree and here's the thing - we mostly do charts and design documents. Occasionally I get to spend a day figuring out why the hideous Java code they handed me won't compile before making the five line change to it that fulfills the assignment rubric (that I probably could have written from scratch in an hour without frameworks).
I'm exaggerating slightly. I did implement a few search algorithms in one course, but the overall focus really seems to be preparing you to go work in some corporate hellscape using outdated tools, not learning all of the fundamentals.
Ignazio Palmisano@badsamurai @nuintari writing sorting algorithms during CS courses taught me the two common errors in CS: naming, caches and off by one errors. SO MANY off by one errors.