[russfink]

Back in the day, wustl.edu was seen as a leader in computer applications. Sad now that it cannot just create its own systems to handle its tasks, especially with AI’s around to offer coding help. Imagine spending a fraction of this money and vectoring it to students to develop said systems.

[bc569a80a344f9c]

“Just let students vibe code your ERP” is a hell of a take.

[msy]

What do you think the consultants are doing? They're mostly last year's graduates anyway.

[Spivak]

Is it any worse than an army of consultants? It would be one thing if it was some off the shelf software but a huge chunk of this project seems to be a new custom application intended for student and faculty use.

It just sounds like Accenture-ware with a new name.

[refulgentis]

If you’re going to open with “is having cs students hack their way to a solution via AI actually worse than Workday?”, this isn’t a fair discussion for who you’re replying to. I assume you’re young and well-intentioned. I would have said the same thing when I was young. The problem is that approach leaves you with, best case with overworked students looking for glory instead of pay, failing classes and enjoy hacking, ~80% of the work done and no staff for maintenance. This isnt an opportunity for hero hacker story, its a real business, it affect people’s lives at their most vulnerable (higher education, paid education, hospital system)

[rasz]

Admitting "Our students cant design or code" is also pretty wild.

[nutjob2]

What you describe is possibly the one thing that would be worse than implementing Workday.