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> The pre-beginners are not at Stack Overflow to look at existing solutions (which is what Stack Overflow wants you to do). They just want someone to do their h
by neilv 1y ago
> The pre-beginners are not at Stack Overflow to look at existing solutions (which is what Stack Overflow wants you to do). They just want someone to do their homework for them.
This is/was also a thing in the Scheme (and Racket) community, where maybe half the users in the world, at any given time, just want to pass the class and then never see it again.
The funny part was that it's a fairly small world, and the forums the students were asking include the people who wrote the textbooks and often the problem sets, as well as probably knew the students' professors.
Fortunately, :) "AI" is now doing all the lazy students' homework for them. So now:
1. The AI plagiarizes from books, open source code, and forums;
2. then the student plagiarizes from the AI;
3. then the forums are left to people who are actually interested;
4. then the AI companies come and again steal whatever the interested people do;
5. and repeat.
- mcswell 1y agoI wonder whether a way to get around this problem would be to show the student buggy Prolog programs, maybe even buggy solutions to textbook problems--whether the "solutions" are produced by AI or by humans might not matter. The student's task is first to find out where the program produces the wrong results, and second to fix the code. From what I've heard (I haven't used AI programs much myself), telling an AI chatbot to fix a program seldom results in the correct fix. So at least until the AIs are greatly improved, would this work?
- neilv 1y agoI think the solution involves raising children to have integrity, and then not then discouraging that with tons of artificial gatekeeping theatre on the way to good jobs. The first obvious thing I'd destroy is LeetCode interviews. Maybe the protagonist in the article would've thought differently about school and jobs and integrity, if he hadn't had to spend 600 hours on LeetCode rehearsals.