Eudaimon ꙮ“The machines are fine. I’m worried about us.” by Minas Karamanis
https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/
I think it’s a very good concern about the effect of pervasive use of LLMs in the stages of education. I see this with my students. I think I’ll try to quantify its use with a survey, to try to see the real scope…
But Bob has a secret.
Unlike Alice, who spent the year reading papers with a pencil in hand, scribbling notes in the margins, getting confused, re-reading, looking things up, and slowly assembling a working understanding of her corner of the field, Bob has been using an AI agent. When his supervisor sent him a paper to read, Bob asked the agent to summarize it. When he needed to understand a new statistical method, he asked the agent to explain it. When his Python code broke, the agent debugged it. When the agent’s fix introduced a new bug, it debugged that too. When it came time to write the paper, the agent wrote it. Bob’s weekly updates to his supervisor were indistinguishable from Alice’s. The questions were similar. The progress was similar. The trajectory, from the outside, was identical.
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