In addition to making people stupid, I wonder what affect will LLMs like Claude will have on programmers? How will new programmers learn if companies start using Claude?

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    How many of us do research in libraries rather than on the internet these days? Back when internet became popular there were similar criticisms to what we have today on AI.

    Not even close to the same. Any (actual) research done online is still using real sources that have just been catalogued online.

    The entire point of having students write essays is to demonstrate an understanding of the subject matter. Being able to come up with a good enough prompt to spit out a few paragraphs good enough to fool your teacher defeats the purpose entirely.

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      My point stands: the technology is not going to disappear. What are we going to do about not being able to use essays to evaluate how well a student understands a subject? Push back on AI? Futile ban attempts?

      You’re saying using AI for essays defeats the purpose of essays, I’m saying essays are no longer a good way to evaluate understanding of a topic.