AI is an impediment to learning web development

Re:AI is an impediment to learning web development by UncleMeat on Sunday October 06, 2024 @03:56PM (#41759782)

My spouse is a university professor. A lot of her students cheat using AI. I am sure that they could be using AI as a learning mechanism, but they observably aren't. Now, the motivations for using AI to pass a class are different but I think that it is important to recognize that there is using AI to build something and learn and there is using AI to build something.

Engineering is also the process of development and maintenance over time. While an AI tool might help you build something that functions, that's just the first step.

I am sure that there are people who leverage AI in such a way that the build a thing and also ask it a lot of questions about why it is built in a certain way and seek to internalize that. I'd wager that this is a small minority.

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Re:AI is an impediment to learning web development by KoolKat23 on Sunday October 06, 2024 @05:03PM (#41760294)

Back in school on occasion it was considered cheating to use a calculator, the purpose to encourage learning. It would be absurd in the work environment to ban the use of calculators, it's your responsibility as an employee to use it correctly. As you say the first step.

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Re:AI is an impediment to learning web development by UncleMeat on Sunday October 06, 2024 @06:45PM (#41760992)

I'm sure at some point that universities will figure out how to integrate AI into pedagogy in a way that works other than a blanket ban. It also doesn't surprise me that until people figure out effective strategies that they say "no chatgpt on your homework."

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