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I'm transitioning to teaching math after a 30-year career as an engineer. I am really conflicted about the use of LLMs for homework. One thing we *for sure* k
by rhelz 2y ago
I'm transitioning to teaching math after a 30-year career as an engineer. I am really conflicted about the use of LLMs for homework.
One thing we *for sure* know that employers are going to want is that one employee does the work of 10 using llms. A
I'm wondering, why don't we give the employers what they want? Why not teach the kids to be super-effective with alms, and then We just give the kids 10x the amount of homework and tell them to get it done anyway they want to?
Sounds rough, but that's the reality which almost every creative writing professional is facing right now. And as soon as the technology makes it feasible, that's the reality that every software engineer is going to be facing. All this talk about 10x engineers...employers are going to expect all of us to be 10x engineers.
I mean, imagine a gym class which teaches kids how to run down an antelope. Because for 200,000 years running down an antelope was a core survival skill, and just because we had supermarkets doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to live off the land.
From John Henry vs. the Steam Hammer, to accountants using spreadsheets in the 80s, the whole story of technology is making 1 person able to do the work of 10. There's no use trying to pretend LLMs didn't happen. They happened, and they are not going away.