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?
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in one course, but the overall focus really seems to be preparing you to go work in some corporate hellscape using outdated tools, not learning all of the fundamentals.