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> Don't know anyone who's life was made worse by it, and I strongly doubt you do either. I do: students who use it to do their thinking for them. And everyone
by beej71 2mo ago
> Don't know anyone who's life was made worse by it, and I strongly doubt you do either.
I do: students who use it to do their thinking for them.
And everyone who uses it to do their thinking for them, for that matter.
- BluSyn 2mo agoLike calculators do math for you? It’s a tool like any other. If that’s how they use it, those students weren’t doing much thinking before either.
- beej71 2mo agoOnce you grok a process, like addition, then the calculator is not a loss. So once you grok programming, debugging, and software engineering, then using the AI is not a loss. But students aren't doing that for the latter if they just punt to AI.