Re:How University Students Use Claude
by colonial on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @12:37PM
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CS/CE undergrad here who entered university right when ChatGPT hit. Things are bad at my large state school.
People who spent the past two years offloading their entry-level work onto LLMs are now taking 400-level systems programming courses and running face-first into a capability wall. I try my best to help, but there's only so much I can do when basic concepts like structs and pointer manipulation get blank stares.
> "Oh, the foo field in that struct should be signed instead of unsigned."
< "Struct?"
> "Yeah, the type definition of Bar? It's right there."
People who spent the past two years offloading their entry-level work onto LLMs are now taking 400-level systems programming courses and running face-first into a capability wall. I try my best to help, but there's only so much I can do when basic concepts like structs and pointer manipulation get blank stares.
> "Oh, the foo field in that struct should be signed instead of unsigned."
< "Struct?"
> "Yeah, the type definition of Bar? It's right there."
< "Man, I had ChatGPT write this code."
> "..."