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Sounds a little bit like the stories from Feynman, e.g.: https://enlightenedidiot.net/random/feynman-on-brazilian-education-system/ https://enlightenedidiot.net
by stahorn 8mo ago
Sounds a little bit like the stories from Feynman, e.g.:
https://enlightenedidiot.net/random/feynman-on-brazilian-education-system/ https://enlightenedidiot.net/random/feynman-on-brazilian-edu...
The students had memorized everything, but understood nothing. Add in access to generative AI, and you have the situation that you had with your interview.
It's a good reminder that what we really do, as programmers or software engineers or what you wanna call it, is understanding how computers and computations work.
- godelski 8mo agoThere's a quote I love from Feynman > The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. I have no doubt he'd be repeating it loudly now, given we live in a time where we developed machines that are optimized to fool ourselves. It's probably also worth reading Feynman's Cargo Cult Science: https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~ravenben/cargocult.html https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~ravenben/cargocult.html