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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

A company that makes learning material to help people learn to code made a test of programming basics for devs to find out if their basic skills have atrophied after use of AI. They posted it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44507369

Not a lot of engagement yet, but so far there is one comment about the actual test content, one shitposty joke, and six comments whining about how the concept of the test itself is totally invalid how dare you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Looks like it's been downranked into hell for being too mean to the AI guys, which is weird when its literally an AI guy promoting his AI generated trash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It seems that the test itself is generated by autoplag? At least that's how I understand the PS and one of the comments about "vibe regression" in response to an error

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Anyway, they say it covers Node and to any question regarding Node the answer is "no", I don't need an AI to know webdev fundamentals