[cush]

I find it particularly ironic when someone who goes to a top university with $70k/yr tuition attempts to gatekeep how learning should be. LLMs are just another tool to use. They're ubiquitously accessible to everyone and are an absolute game-changer for learning.

Folks in an academic setting particularly will sneer at those who don't build everything from first principles. Go back 20 years, and the same article would read "IDEs are an impediment to learning web development"

[wsintra2022]

Hmm not so sure. If you don’t know or understand some web development fundamentals; having a friend who just writes the code for you and also sometimes makes up wrong code and presents it as the right code. Can definitely be a hindrance to learning rather than a help.

[cush]

Everyone in this thread is saying this as if humans don't make mistakes. I get presented with wrong code as if it's right code every day

[o11c]

The problem is that the AI always gives wrong answers that are indistinguishable from correct answers if you don't already know what you're doing.

And if you know what you're doing, you don't need the AI.

[cush]

Just because a student asking a question doesn't mean they're incapable of applying their existing knowledge or intuition...

"How tall is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?"

- "13ft tall"

"Okay well that's obviously wrong..."

[guappa]

I got my degree in computer science paying less than 200€ in tuition fees.

[cush]

The author is discussing their experience at Tufts