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ishtanbul | 3 months ago

Here is my proposal for AI in schools: raise the bar dramatically. Rather than trying to prevent kids from using AI, just raise the expectations of what they should accomplish with it. They should be setting really lofty goals rather than just doing the same work with less effort.

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oytis|3 months ago

AI doesn't help you do higher quality work. It helps you do (or imitate) mediocre work faster. But thing is, it is hard to learn how to do excellent work without learning to do mediocre work first.

bo1024|3 months ago

This is great for a “capstone project” at the end of a degree. But along the way, you have to master sub tasks and small skills in order to build on them later to accomplish lofty goals. So you need to learn the basics first. But AI is really good at helping you cheat on the basics without learning. So we still need to get them to the point of being able to use AI intelligently

alexose|3 months ago

Absolutely. I'd love to see the same effect happen in the software industry. Keep the volume of output the same, but increase the quality.

oytis|3 months ago

> Keep the volume of output the same, but increase the quality.

Effect of AI applied to coding is precisely the opposite though?

muldvarp|3 months ago

> Keep the volume of output the same, but increase the quality.

This will _never_ happen. Output will increase and quality will decrease.

ojr|3 months ago

that is what they do in the software industry, before it was let me catch you off guard with asking how to reverse a linked list, now its leetcode questions that are so hard that you need to know and study them weekly, and prep for a year, interviewer can tell if you started prep 3 weeks prior