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[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is chatgpt the default starting point for inexperienced / early career/ students now?

[–] Kostyeah@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As a CS student, yes absolutely. These people then complain about paper exams and when the code gets complex enough for the AI to make mistakes. I've seen a few people drop out in programming 2, and my web 1 class was decimated because we were doing more than leetcode exercises. It's a real problem that so many people are using it as a crutch.

I'm not a developer but I write a lot of code for network infrastructure automation... when I started learning I was already a network engineer so I figured it would be a cakewalk. I think it takes a certain type of person (patience, persistence, tenacity, etc) to excel in a computer science field. I'd reckon a lot of young people think the jobs are all pretty sweet and cushy

[–] weker01@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

I'm neither surprised nor unsurprised. I'm middle aged and don't have much insight into what university students are doing day to day.