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>> Does that actually work?

Sure. Works in my IDE. "Create a linked list implementation, use that implementation in a method to reverse a linked list and write example code to demonstrate usage".

Working code in a few seconds.

I'm very glad I didn't have access to anything like that when I was doing my CS degree.

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Yeah, and forget about giving skeleton code to students they should fill in; using an AI can quite frequently completely ace a typical undergraduate level assignment. I actually feel bad for people teaching programming courses, as the only real assessment one can now do is in-class testing without computers, but that is a strange way to test students’ ability to write and develop code to solve certain classes of problems…

Why do the in-class testing without computers?

We use an airgapped lab (it has LAN and a local git server for submissions, no WAN) to give coding assessments. It works.

At my college, we did in-class testing with psuedocode, because we were being tested on concepts, not specific programming languages or syntax.

Hopefully someone is thinking about adapting the assessments. Asking questions that focus on a big picture understanding instead of details on those in-class tests.

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