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GitHub Copilot CRUSHES Leetcode Interview Questions! 😳

DevOps Directive · 266.5K views · 2021-07-04 · 9:20

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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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Cited as evidence that AI can solve interview-style algorithm puzzles, in threads questioning the value of Leetcode.

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usrbinbash · 2022-01 · Reference

> 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? [VIDEO]

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thomasahle · 2021-12 · Reference

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 [VIDEO] and I'm curious how it will fare on the later advent of code problems.

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MichaelMoser123 · 2021-07 · Reference

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

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