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Manuel Jun 12

All this to say that I'm happy someone is thinking about how to deal with the misuse of AI in higher education:

https://htmx.org/essays/universities-and-ai/

And maybe also to vent a little...

</> htmx ~ The University In The AI Era

In this essay, Carson Gross thinks about the best way for the university to prepare students in the AI era.

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Manuel Jun 12

My personal favorite: online quizzes and succeeding downwards. Being in the bottom of the grade distribution for online weekly quizzes despite having an average quiz grade greater than 95%. Turns out the university platform tracks behavior: the first thing almost every student did when presented with each question was select all the text and copy it, then half a minute later they selected the correct answer. Its been announced the quizzes are now only 5% of the final grade.

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Manuel Jun 12

Example 2: A teammate committed an entire "group assignment" to the official course repo on day one, it was all AI-generated and incorrect (teammate didn't even bothered to run the given tests). When confronted they replied: "Did you see how many lines I pushed? You should finish up the rest". Reviewing slop is torture, respect for those that dived into the Claude Code leak.

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Manuel Jun 12

Example 1: After weeks of radio silence, a teammate in a group assignment shares 16 pages of LLM-generated slop 2 days before deadline as "their contribution." Obviously it was completely ignored, I didn't even read past the first page.

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Manuel Jun 12

What is my favorite part so far? Having the space to learn at my own pace. What do I dread? Dealing with how some peers use #AI.

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Manuel Jun 12

After working a few years, I decided to take a break and pursue a Master's. This time, I've given myself license to slow down and explore any fields I'm curious about (undergrad was in CS).

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Manuel Jun 12

During undergrad, a scholarship made my dream of studying in a top North American university real (something I believed was just fantasy for along time). That same opportunity came with pressure: I had to focus and finish as fast as possible.

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Manuel Jun 3

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency Jun 3

Wow, AI is super-bad for idea development. I've worked with & taught this for years & one recurring theme is people go out of process & into final solution mode way too soon & often - but that's all AI does & can do: Present "final solutions" immediately, with no process.

Add that people in general are bad at abstracting from a presented framing & look differently at the topic at hand & AI is basically a machine for NOT developing ideas.

#innovation #creativity #process

Manuel May 23