Ask canned questions, expect canned answers as well. Dumb or lazy incompetent students will look up solutions to problems like fibonacci sequence or sum of numb

Ask canned questions, expect canned answers as well. Dumb or lazy incompetent students will look up solutions to problems like fibonacci sequence or sum of numbers without understanding them or solving them first on their own. This has always been the case, even before copilot came along. Copilot only made it even easier and accessible to even dumber students, and made it harder for dumb teachers to lazily give canned programming questions. I haven't used copilot yet, so I don't know how intelligent it is at producing solutions that it hasn't seen before. Assuming it's not that intelligent, one solution would be to just add small, tricky variations or constraints to well-known programming problems. So instead of just asking "find the sum of numbers", ask "find the sum of foo numbers", where foo is some made-up property, like a number contains even number of odd digits. Then require the implementation to count down instead of counting up.