I agree with you here, but what's special about tech is that many of us learned all these terms fully casually while using computers as children and teenagers, which would be much less common for a chemist. That makes programmers see a lot of things as computer literacy that most people have rather than specialized knowledge.
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Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample 19 hours ago
Stop Using JWTs 1 month ago
You can't securely have truly stateless authentication without having massive resources, see the cryto.net link above.
I don't think the cryto.net post really explains why this is true (at least in a way that would be made different by "massive resources").
My guess is that the vast majority of those self-reported cases where relating to a take-home assignment (e.g., copying off a classmate's solution). Even without proctoring, you need to be a lot more brazen to cheat on an in-person exam.
So you want to speak at software conferences? 8 months ago
Probably LinkedIn
Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf] 8 months ago
I think the point is that it looks like Gemini 3 was only tested with the generic "Terminus 2", whereas Codex was tested with the Codex CLI.