Well, my point is that you can't much tell from GPA unless your goal is to avoid people who can't do simple things.

But as this article says, what these people in the article were catching are outright code copying and transcribing code and yeah, you can't really function in a programming job if you have to copy and transcribe code in school.

But beyond the basic level of cheating there's also the level where a lot of students collaborate and team work through classes. This isn't outright cheating but there are plenty of students in honors programs that are no better than students who are not.

Complicating this even further, there are regular projects in CS departments where they're easy to solve if you're collaborating with other students and can swap information on twists or what's not working in a project. But the program presents a whole other level of challenge when you do the projects all on your own. Taking on the challenge of doing every project on your own is like playing CS in expert mode. A lot of students -- just guessing, maybe half -- aren't doing that at all. They're playing the game in easy mode when they teamwork. And then there are some who only fall back on friends when there's some kind of problem with a project.

If I was hiring, I'd want the guy who did their own problem-solving.