u/Beginning_Buddy_507

I, 20F, am working at an engineering company with a fellow (21M) intern in my department. He's been on my bad side the entirety of the internship since he attempted to hide his nepotism when his dad is in our department and overall acts as if he knows more in every situation we're in together. This is not new behavior since I have dealt with plenty of misogynists in engineering; however, the nepotism is fairly new to me.

Anyways, we had a very similar assignment in which I was kinda stuck on how to go about it manually (which was the norm), but I turned over to ask him a question, and he had code open, so I looked up how to automate in this system and developed my own code. I think that we both relied on AI throughout our processes, so I didn't feel guilty for that inspiration, but when I was done, I made sure to let my manager know of my progress. In this meeting, I mentioned he was coding a solution too but did not feel the need to go into detail, partly because I hadn't seen it since the first time and partly because she was already upset that he wasn't reaching out to her, so I figured he should put in the effort. I ended up getting a lot of valuable feedback and was able to heavily edit my code.

However, later in our internship, we were all assigned presentations where he finally showed his code to people other than his dad. Our other manager told us we should collaborate and demo for the team. About 2 hours after sitting at our desks, I finally decided to be the one to start the collab, where he then went on to admit some of my choices were better, but we should just make it "easy" on ourselves and use his, since my code had an error. (The error existed largely because while I had one set of data to test it on, he used his dad's and his dad's friend's to test his). I eventually got him to admit we should keep some aspects of my code, and though I had some work for the next few days, we should reconvene.

That brings me to today; we had a weekly joint meeting with our manager, and she brought up that he had reached out to another person on the team to demo and said he should just demo to everyone. Which I had no idea he had completed the integration between our modules, so that threw me off as is. But the worst part was after our meeting, he sent a message to our team and the code saying he wanted to demo and present it on Friday to everyone. I am completely lost on what to do because even our department head plans on being there, and from what I can see, this code is 70% mine and 30% his. So I definitely deserve credit, which, from his lack of involving me, seems like he doesn't intend to give.

How do I confront him or someone else to make sure I am involved? (I think he made a presentation too because I saw him looking at slides the other day) Any advice would be great!

TDLR: Nepo-guy intern took a large part of my code and is planning on presenting it as his to my team. Any advice on how to handle this would be greatly appreciated!

I, 20F, am working at an engineering company with a fellow (21M) intern in my department. He's been on my bad side the entirety of the internship since he attempted to hide his nepotism when his dad is in our department and overall acts as if he knows more in every situation we're in together. This is not new behavior since I have dealt with plenty of misogynists in engineering; however, the nepotism is fairly new to me.

Anyways, we had a very similar assignment in which I was kinda stuck on how to go about it manually (which was the norm), but I turned over to ask him a question, and he had code open, so I looked up how to automate in this system and developed my own code. I think that we both relied on AI throughout our processes, so I didn't feel guilty for that inspiration, but when I was done, I made sure to let my manager know of my progress. In this meeting, I mentioned he was coding a solution too but did not feel the need to go into detail, partly because I hadn't seen it since the first time and partly because she was already upset that he wasn't reaching out to her, so I figured he should put in the effort. I ended up getting a lot of valuable feedback and was able to heavily edit my code.

However, later in our internship, we were all assigned presentations where he finally showed his code to people other than his dad. Our other manager told us we should collaborate and demo for the team. About 2 hours after sitting at our desks, I finally decided to be the one to start the collab, where he then went on to admit some of my choices were better, but we should just make it "easy" on ourselves and use his, since my code had an error. (The error existed largely because while I had one set of data to test it on, he used his dad's and his dad's friend's to test his). I eventually got him to admit we should keep some aspects of my code, and though I had some work for the next few days, we should reconvene.

That brings me to today; we had a weekly joint meeting with our manager, and she brought up that he had reached out to another person on the team to demo and said he should just demo to everyone. Which I had no idea he had completed the integration between our modules, so that threw me off as is. But the worst part was after our meeting, he sent a message to our team and the code saying he wanted to demo and present it on Friday to everyone. I am completely lost on what to do because even our department head plans on being there, and from what I can see, this code is 70% mine and 30% his. So I definitely deserve credit, which, from his lack of involving me, seems like he doesn't intend to give.

How do I confront him or someone else to make sure I am involved? (I think he made a presentation too because I saw him looking at slides the other day) Any advice would be great!

TDLR: Nepo-guy intern took a large part of my code and is planning on presenting it as his to my team. Any advice on how to handle this would be greatly appreciated!