Re:Claude asked to renumber pages deletes professor's syllab...
by malux85 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:38PM
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For the general public Id agree with you, for professors (of any subject) I would set the bar way higher.
Have you seen the university entrance exams from 100 years ago? When going to university actually meant something? I would say less than 1% of people currently at university at this time would pass them.
The student body got dumber as university changed from being a beacon of enlightenment to a profit maximiser, and the standard of professor dropped equally as sharply.
It took me 15 minutes to teach my chief commercial officer git and now she uses it every day. Expecting a university professor to understand a version control system is not hard, its only hard if the professor is an idiot and we (collectivly) accept that as ok
It may be a non-story for us in engineering who are very familiar with the technology, but the story here is the spread of AI and the expectations that the general public have about how computers work and how those mental models will take time to update.
Just like early computer users were surprised that a document could be lost if not saved, unlike typewriters or pencils and paper before them, it’s likely the products and technology will need to shift to be more user friendly. Just like the introduction of auto-save.