Sadly that’s the trade off when you want a common benchmark to measure students, but then students optimize for that benchmark instead of something else — basic

Sadly that’s the trade off when you want a common benchmark to measure students, but then students optimize for that benchmark instead of something else — basically Goodhart’s law. As a current student studying CS, I find all of this “leetcoding” disheartening since it unnecessarily takes away time and deprives some people of passion.