It should be done at least once in a class. They would have to do the same thing in a scrum meeting in the real workplace explaining what they did the day/night before to a senior dev or a project manager. I quiz my contractors all the time. Drives the contractor PM nuts, but he respects it.

winteryeti

When you compare a student's emails to the language used explaining code, it becomes very clear to someone who does know code when the person is bullshitting

100%.  It's pretty easy to spot students' AI use, but I kinda hate grading based on that subjective feel, so I avoid it as much as I can.  Because of that, my implicit AI policy is very permissive.

Most of my students would get absolutely wrecked in any kind of in-person assessment

Education

Some more AI observations from college land

SimpleStacker

> When you compare a student's emails to the language used explaining code, it becomes very clear to someone who does know code when the person is bullshitting

100%.  It's pretty easy to spot students' AI use, but I kinda hate grading based on that subjective feel, so I avoid it as much as I can.  Because of that, my implicit AI policy is very permissive.

> In-person would be even harder to evade

Most of my students would get absolutely wrecked in any kind of in-person assessment