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Well that's the rub. There's no way, even for a senior engineer, to know everything. In fact, one of the required skills is "how to ask the question as to elicit the answer in a reasonable amount of time".

The closed-book crap can stay closed in the universities and schools demanding a regurgitation of mostly-right knowledge.

Now... The skill of asking the right Qs also directly intersects with LLMs, and how to discern good/bad responses.

But hiding it? Yeah, probably not a good fit.



> The closed-book crap can stay closed in the universities and schools demanding a regurgitation of mostly-right knowledge.

I work at a university and most of our exams are open book or project based. You probably want to update your image of universities.


>You probably want to update your image of universities.

I have a close friend who is a prof at a university and most exams remain closed book.

You probably want to update your image of universities.

Or, perhaps, we can agree that it depends on the university, the subject, etc. and blanket statements based on single anecdotes are silly?




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