Only graduate students and Sheiber himself handle the program, Bodell says.
Undergraduate TF Leslie S. P. Yeh '00, who works closely with her CS50 students, calls the program "invisible to the TFs."
"We know that it's real, we know that it's run, but otherwise we don't have much to do with it," Yeh says.
Fact or Fiction
"I don't know if it's a myth," says computer science concentrator Toshi J. Clark '03, who took CS50 last semester. "[But] it gives incentive to do it by yourself."
Even Sheiber says that the existence and use of the software is "widely known but not widely believed."
He says he has been approached by students who see the software as a cheating bogeyman.
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