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GitHub Copilot CRUSHES Leetcode Interview Questions! 😳

266K views · Jul 4, 2021 · 9:20 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2021–2022

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as evidence that AI can solve interview-style algorithm puzzles, in threads questioning the value of Leetcode.

What Hacker News said 3

Cites itMichaelMoser123Jul 2021

“i actually like it that copilot is better than me at solving interview questions.”

Copilot solving Leetcode interview questions.

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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.

in “FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot” · view on HN
Cites itthomasahleDec 2021

“it did manage to solve some of the harder leetcode questions here”

Copilot solving harder Leetcode problems.

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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.

in “Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1” · view on HN
Cites itusrbinbashJan 2022

Copilot solving Leetcode problems as rebuttal.

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> 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

in “Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer” · view on HN