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		FrustratedMonky 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Ch... Exactly. When I was in school even in 80's, it was common to have to hand write out a program during an exam. You had to know stuff in the old days.

floren 3 months ago [–]

I hand-wrote code in the late 00s. Java, assembly, C. The graders gave us some grace since we couldn't test, but you were expected to be pretty accurate. Hell, one quiz was just 20 identical pages on which we iterated through the Tomasulo algorithm.

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