alt Hacker NewsGP: "it didn't write a C compiler, it copied other compilers. Writing one from scratch is a lot harder."
You: "but look! It wrote a C compiler!"
GP: "it didn't write a C compiler, it copied other compilers. Writing one from scratch is a lot harder."
You: "but look! It wrote a C compiler!"
The pattern matching rote-student is acing the class. No surprises here. There is no need to understand the subject from first principles to ace tests. Majority of high-school and college kids know this.