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Shorellast Thursday at 1:38 PM1 replyview on HN

2005? You were in the right.

Today? Now that's when it is tricky. How can we know you are not one of these prompt "engineers" copy paster? That's the issue being discussed.

20 years and many new technologies of difference.


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ToucanLoucanlast Thursday at 2:37 PM

What is the functional difference between copying an AI answer and copying a StackOverflow answer, in terms of it being "cheating" during an interview?

I think the entire question is missing the forest for the trees. I have never asked a candidate to write code in any fashion during an interview. I talk to them. I ask them how they would solve problems, chase down bugs, or implement new features. I ask about concepts like OOP. I ask about what they've worked on previously, what they found interesting, what they found frustrating, etc.

Languages are largely teachable, it's just syntax and keywords. What I can't teach people is how to think like programmers need to: how to break down big, hard problems into smaller problems and implement solutions. If you know that, I can teach you fucking Swift, it isn't THAT complicated and there's about 5 million examples of "how do I $X" available all over the Internet.

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