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I wonder how much of this is due to poor incentives at the university level? I've seen this work well at a job when there's a feedback loop for juniors that incentivized them to learn with more scope and compensation
How did that business evaluate that the juniors were actually mastering concepts they had not known before?
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For coding specifically (there are many studies out there by now, but I know of these offhand): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/10/4115 -- probably the earliest one of its kind, finds over-reliance degrades critical skills but supplementary use is mostly harmless. https://arxiv.org/html/2601.20245v2 -- Anthropic's study, same as above except supplementary use (like clarifying concepts) can actually be beneficial. h…
I’ve noticed you are posting a lot of studies around, some of which have been peer reviewed and some not, some argue against your point, and some show mixed results. Are you a researcher in the pedagogical sciences? Regardless, you have to admit that the original claim has very little evidence behind it despite being testable. And also the caveat you tag onto the end is a pretty massive caveat, and from the sources y…
I initially banned them from using LLMs for homework or coding assignments, because as above, my intuition is that you learn best by doing, and you won't learn anything if LLMs do everything for you.
On the other hand, I personally have learned insane amounts of a new subject matter simply by pair programming and conversing with an LLM. I could not even "cheat" and let the LLM do everything because the problem I tackled is not really addressed anywhere! This forced me to experiment a lot, which helped me learn very quickly.
This led me to wonder what "disciplined" use of LLMs can do for learning... which is how I came across a whole bunch of these studies.
I think your concern is really about disciplined use of LLMs, rather than the overall effect of LLMs on learning. And I would agree: students will just be too tempted to use them to cheat. However, I think those who have the discipline to use them judiciously can supercharge their learning like never before, but only as long they do the hard work of "building the muscles" without AI.
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Colleague (non-designer) generated UI with Claude. It was awful and broke basic design rules. So yes you may be right.
Claude Code or Claude Design? The latter seems to be a step up, but it’s more so a replacement for a repurposed paid template than a full time designer.
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I mean, if you don’t like refactoring, which is my absolute favorite, it’s hard to believe you understand software engineering and software architecture. Tedium absolutely exists in coding. And is usually a sign of bad interfaces and/or architecture. For most of us it wasn’t really about getting the user to do X. It’s getting the user to do X at 1/10th of the price, 10x the speed, and the user is left absolutely amaz…
> it’s hard to believe you understand software engineering and software architecture. I made over $500k TC writing active-active high availability services that moved billions of dollars a day. I've been around the block. > Magic is for the user to experience. Not for the user of the programming language. Why are you treating our primitive technology as holy? It's all temporary fucking garbage that is a limitation of…
LLMs make me jealous of the young.