lowbloodsugar • 5 days ago

Programming with AI is the job now. That’s what you need to be teaching if you want your graduates to get a job programming.

What’s changed is that “some working code” is no longer proof that a student understands the material.

You’re going to need a new way to identify students that understand the material.

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sshine • 5 days ago

There really are two opposite policies at play:

  - Just say no to AI
  - Just embrace AI
I ran one semester embracing AI, and... I don't know, I don't have enough to compare with, but clearly it leaves a lot of holes in people's understanding. They generate stuff that they don't understand. Maybe it's fine. But they're certainly worse programmers than I was after having spent the same time without LLMs.

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lowbloodsugar • 5 days ago

I learned to program computers by reverse engineering. I don’t have a CS degree. I wonder if that’s what we need to teach kids now. The AI did this, but why? If the curriculum doesn’t change, then kids aren’t going to learn anything useful, because the AI can do the curriculum.