Comment by sintezcs
1 day ago
What’s wrong with it if they studied the codeGPT solution well enough to explain it, answer the questions about corner cases and suggest improvements? Won’t it be a good indicator of the candidates skills? ChatGPT is one of the daily tools nowadays, we should not ban it, but the one using it should be able to understand and explain the code, and his logic, and explain how he architected the solution and how the LlM assisted him, and where it worked well and where not so good.
Probably becasue you are looking for people who can actually perform a certain job and not just come back with the ChatGPT answer.
If they can produce working code that solves the problem, and explain how it works, that is more than “just com[ing] back with the ChatGPT answer.” I'm not saying ChatGPT doesn't have its own issues, but this is not one of them.
I've had candidates who successfully did this to explain how a SQL JOIN works. But I'm not looking for candidates who can read a GPT prompt; I'm looking for people who deeply understand how a join works.