None of these articles address how we'll go from novice to expert, as either self-taught or through the educational system, and all the bloggers got their proverbial "10k hours" before LLMs were a thing. IMO This isn't abstractions, the risk is wholesale outsourcing of learning. And no, I don't accept the argument that correct and LLMs errors is the same as correcting a junior devs errors because the junior dev would…
I can tell you the current thinking of most of the instructors I know: teach the same fundamentals as always, and carefully add a bit of LLM use. To use LLMs effectively, you have to be an excellent problem-solver with complex technical problems. And developing those skills has always been the goal of CS education. Or, more bluntly, are you going to hire the junior with excellent LLM skills, or are you going to hire…
Re: My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it
#241Thanks for the response, I appreciate it. I absolutely agree with you about CS education. I went to school to learn how to learn. So, the best-case outcome is everyone has A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer available to them. At that point I suppose to really does live with the individual as to whether they want to see how much potential they really have.