Lightning Talk: Filling the Bucket: Reading Code, C++ Code Interviews & Exams
summary
C++ exam-style code reads a recursive CanFill(big, vector<small>, idx) that returns pair<bool, fill-instructions> and assumes the small buckets are sorted decreasingly; a case shows the last bucket > target so it fails, and a call-count question yields four recursive calls. The implementation contains an off-by-one bug in the loop/count logic, and an AI (ChatGPT) is used to explain and answer the questions — it gives useful explanations but makes at least one wrong flip and misses a value-detail.
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