Coping with Copilot
While it is true code pilot is quite amazing and can produce some very decent snippets, if the exercice you give is specific enought (using a special database schema, file format, or API), with objectives that are not common (ask the user specific questions, and draw conclusions out of it or react to events), then it cannot produce a fully working program. I use code pilot regularly now, and it does speed up my work, but I can&#x27;t do anything with it without understanding the problem at hand.<p>There is nothing wrong with the student assemblings and fixing parts of code that exist. Doing that requires understanding those parts, how they interacts and what you can do with them. It&#x27;s not killing tests. Plus as professionals, we all do that anyway. Heck, I learned doing that. I&#x27;m paid doing that.<p>However, there is something wrong with academic exercices that I see in the wild. Things that are very abstracts, requiring way more than programming knowledge, or stuff that are asked out of context completely. Students are both understimulated, and given too hard bites to chew. It&#x27;s a terrible way to learn, and to be tested IMO.<p>Tests nowaday don&#x27;t tests for knowledge, they test either for compliance, or act as a filter instead of a feedback loop. This is not education.<p>In fact, I&#x27;ve yet to see school IT course that I didn&#x27;t find deeply flawed, and I completely understand the students for cheating at them to that they can suffer as little as possible. They are not given a chance to prove themself or progress, they are not respected. They are forced fed junk and asked to spit it back all shiny.<p>I remember when I was a student, and I went to 11 different schools because of my twisted life. They all sucked. And I say that as I spent half my student life at the top of my class grade ladder.<p>I regret having cheated so rarely now.