I'm not sure it'd work since this was before LLMs and in OS, but the thing that worked for me was telling them they should do the HW themselves because every interviewer will ask them to implement something related to the material, so whatever their final grade is, they WANT to know it.

Uh man, I really needed a good laugh today 😂

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