alt Hacker News> a session with Gemini 2.5 Pro (without Code Execution tools)
How good are you at programming on a whiteboard? How good is anybody? With code execution tools withheld from me, I'll freely admit that I'm pretty shit at programming. Hell, I barely remember the syntax in some of the more esoteric, unpracticed places of my knowledge. Thus, it's hard not to see case studies like this as dunking on a blindfolded free throw shooter, and calling it analysis.
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It’s like that but if the blindfolded free throw shooter was also the scorekeeper and the referee & told you with complete confidence that the ball went in, when you looked away for a second.
It's pretty common for software developers to be asked to code up some random algorithm on a whiteboard as part of the interview process.
> How good are you at programming on a whiteboard?
pretty good?
I could certainly do a square root
(given enough time, that one would take me a while)