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> If you're doing a good job I think the problem is that the grader has to run your code in their head. That's a whole different problem.
by mbreese 4mo ago
> If you're doing a good job
I think the problem is that the grader has to run your code in their head. That's a whole different problem.
- dizhn 4mo agoI would imagine every professor (or assistant) who graded any programming exam I wrote was doing just that and further expect them to let some things slide as long as the general direction was correct.
- AlecSchueler 4mo agoThey can OCR them and run them for real.
- jauco 4mo agoThis would be HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) not OCR and HTR is a lot harder than OCR especially for modern scripts (i.e. student's scrawls). And at every error the reviewer now needs to check if it was due to an error in the code or due to a bad HTR somewhere in the code. I'd say compared to just typing the code on a disconnected computer: Not worth it.
- DonHopkins 4mo agoAnd then you can grade them on important syntactic issues that really matter, like tabs -vs- spaces.
- bobthepanda 4mo agodo they? OCR has gotten pretty good in 2026.
- tigerlily 4mo agoGood, the grader should hone that skill at pace then.
- nextaccountic 4mo agoThe student has to submit one exam. The grader has to grade N exams.
- jnwatson 4mo agoWhich is literally what graduate students get paid to do. How do you think English, philosophy, or history tests get graded?
- danaris 4mo agoDo you think every institution of higher education has a ready supply of grad students to just throw at problems that require manpower? Or were you just assuming your experiences (large university, I'm guessing) are universal?
- jnwatson 4mo agoYes. That's exactly what college is. If you don't have the resources to effectively individually evaluate a student's output, you shouldn't hold a graded class.
- danaris 4mo agoThen let me spell it out for you, since you seem to be unaware: There are many, many colleges that have no grad students. Period. They are undergraduate colleges. Expecting any college or university to just be able to scale up the amount of manpower required to grade their classes/exams by a large multiple is absurdly unrealistic. I assure you that most existing colleges do have plenty of resources to effectively evaluate individual students' outputs, if they don't have to assume that anything submitted digitally is written by LLMs. That new requirement is a massive change to how they operate, and it's incredibly rude and short-sighted to be dismissive and contemptuous of institutions that have trouble adjusting to it.
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