I stayed up too late collecting way-past-deadline papers and writing report cards. When I woke up at 6, this anxious email from one of my g11 Computer Science students was already in my Inbox.

Student: Hello Mr. Carle, I hope you've slept well; I haven't.

I've been seeing a lot of new media regarding how developed AI has become in software programming, most relevantly videos about NVIDIA's new artificial intelligence software developer, Devin.

Things like these are almost disheartening for me to see as I try (and struggle) to get better at coding and developing software. It feels like I'll never use the information that I learn in your class outside of high school because I can just ask an AI to write complex programs, and it will do it much faster than I would.

I'd like to know what your thoughts on this are. Do you think AI [...]

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First published:
May 14th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D6nTSEdCcbGQKCfc2/teaching-cs-during-take-off

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“Teaching CS During Take-Off” by andrew carle

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