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Re:The AI Zombification of Universities by achenet on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:09PM (#48140574)
for STEM topics, I feel like some amount of "personal study time" is kind of needed to really grok stuff, at least for a percentage of students.

I studied maths, and spending time alone trying to solve problems and redoing the proofs from memory was important for my learning.

I don't think I'd have learned as much had those moments been replaced with more in class discussion.

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Re:The AI Zombification of Universities by cmrdporcupine on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:16PM (#48140658)
I personally feel like the software engineering profession may have to start moving more towards an apprenticeship model than a theoretical CS-gradate-then-work model.

Internship / coop programs at places like Waterloo already look a bit like this.

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Re:The AI Zombification of Universities by singpolyma3 on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:40PM (#48140937)
Yes but AI doesn't prevent you from doing that learning. What is makes harder is the old broken ways of credentialing your learning. The way you do the learning has no need to change.
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