GitHub Copilot CRUSHES Leetcode Interview Questions! 😳
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as evidence that AI can solve interview-style algorithm puzzles, in threads questioning the value of Leetcode.
What it is
A DevOps YouTuber tests GitHub Copilot on a range of Leetcode problems and finds it solves most immediately, with a few needing tweaks and some far off. He concludes it would outperform him in a FAANG-style interview.
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What Hacker News said
Cites MichaelMoser123 · 2021-07 · on “FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot”
i actually like it that copilot is better than me at solving interview questions. [this video] I for one welcome our robot overlords. i wonder if they could retrain the model on BSD or MIT licensed code only; How much of the open source code is licensed as GPL vs more permissive licenses, does anyone know? Interesting that they want to charge for the use of co-pilot, I guess that we will see this business model more in the future.
Cites thomasahle · 2021-12 · on “Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1”
It's a question of whether copilot can be "creative". I'm mit sure, but it did manage to solve some of the harder leetcode questions here [this video] and I'm curious how it will fare on the later advent of code problems.
Cites usrbinbash · 2022-01 · on “Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer”
> But if there wasn't any art to these problems, then after 400+ problems wouldn't you have figured out the robotic algorithm to solve them? [this video]