I used replit for education. At some point they added ai assistance. It was like pair programming with someone who is over eager and doesn’t know why you’re dying things.
When I’m teaching code, I don’t need ai to finish my circle calculation program before I’ve explained the first line to students.
In line completion of repetitive stuff is fine, even though it does often introduce bugs, meaning I still need to read every single char it writes. Now scale that up to entire functions, project that onto people that don’t know the language/library well, and don’t understand the function itself. That’s just chaos.
Last year, for the first time, a large majority of my students used chatGPT.
This correlated with their skills at the start of the year: the more they lacked (or were lazy), the more they used it.
And at the end of the year, they were the ones who had learned the least.
I’m not playing the old fart who thinks young people are getting dumber and dumber.
There are beginning to be studies on this, and my little experience is consistent with their results.
I used replit for education. At some point they added ai assistance. It was like pair programming with someone who is over eager and doesn’t know why you’re dying things.
When I’m teaching code, I don’t need ai to finish my circle calculation program before I’ve explained the first line to students.
I, on the other hand, am very happy that AI can autocomplete the n-th similar filter function I need to write.
In line completion of repetitive stuff is fine, even though it does often introduce bugs, meaning I still need to read every single char it writes. Now scale that up to entire functions, project that onto people that don’t know the language/library well, and don’t understand the function itself. That’s just chaos.
Last year, for the first time, a large majority of my students used chatGPT.
This correlated with their skills at the start of the year: the more they lacked (or were lazy), the more they used it. And at the end of the year, they were the ones who had learned the least.
I’m not playing the old fart who thinks young people are getting dumber and dumber. There are beginning to be studies on this, and my little experience is consistent with their results.