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It is literally perfect linear scaling. For every student you must expend constant minutes of TA time grading the exam. Why is it unconscionable that the univer
by recursivecaveat 9mo ago
It is literally perfect linear scaling. For every student you must expend constant minutes of TA time grading the exam. Why is it unconscionable that the university should have an expense scale at the same rate it receives tuition revenue? $90,000 of tuition pays for a lot of grading hours. I feel that scalability is a cultural meme that has lost the plot.
- andrepd 9mo agoThere are phrases that hn loves and "scalable" is one of them. Here, it is particularly inappropriate. Some people dream that technology (preferably duly packaged by for-profit SV concerns) can and will eventually solve each and every problem in the world; unfortunately what education boils down to is good, old-fashioned teaching. By teachers. Nothing whatsoever replaces a good, talented, and attentive teacher, all the technologies in the world, from planetariums to manim, can only augment a good teacher. Grading students with LLMs is already tone-deaf, but presenting this trainwreck of a result and framing it as any sort of success... Let's just say it reeks of 2025.
- chii 9mo agoit's not so black and white. If a student is willing and desire to learn, an LLM is better than a bad teacher. If a student doesn't want to learn, and is instead being forced to (either as a minor, or via certification required to obtain work & money), then they have every incentive to cheat. An LLM is insufficient in this case - a teacher is both the enforcer and the tutor in this case. There's also nothing wrong with a teacher using an LLM to help with the grading imho.