Anonymous #2 9w

Yeah I can still write a paper but I can also ask AI questions about entirely other stuff and get pretty good answers. And maybe it’s different because I’m in CS but yeah basically every student uses AI in my major for coding assignments

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 9w

Having self-worth doesn’t mean you have to be a Luddite

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Anonymous OP 9w

That’s a major-wide skill issue

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Anonymous OP 9w

At best, using AI for your homework is equivalent to asking someone else to give you the answers.

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 9w

Well it’s funny because I’m 99% sure I could still code circles around you so who really has the skill issue

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Anonymous OP 9w

I got through my computer science courses with no generative AI.

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 9w

No one says you have to use it for your homework bruh lmao

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 9w

Want a cookie?

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Anonymous OP 9w

You said you use it for your courses, and the entire post itself indicates that you’re fine using it.

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Anonymous OP 9w

Nah, I didn’t earn it. Talking to you takes no effort.

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 9w

Like lmao I’m a SWE at a huge company. Basically every eng uses AI for automating the boring shit or summarizing documentation. I don’t really understand the need to resist things that are helpful

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Anonymous OP 9w

1) that’s different to what the post’s about. Your post is talking about people using AI in a school environment, not a corporate one. Please don’t shift the goalposts. 2) I’m also against widespread generative AI use we’re seeing due to the environmental damage it causes.

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 9w

The original post is just saying AI is for weenies so I’m not shifting the goalposts, I referenced using it in a school environment because this is an app for college students. And I don’t really see why that would make a difference for your argument

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Anonymous OP 9w

The difference is that using genAI for education is not as intellectually stimulating as other means of learning. So in that setting particularly, it’s important to draw attention to the drawbacks. Anyways, I gtg. My brain is fried rn and I got to be up early tomorrow.

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 9w

Yeah there’s a difference between dumping all the instructions into ChatGPT and hoping it one shots the entire thing and asking it a niche question that it might know the answer to so I don’t have to go digging in man pages for 20 minutes to come up with the command I need. I’m perfectly ok with and would encourage the latter most of the time since that’s not much different than asking a TA for help on something after already trying. “Using it for courses” can mean lots of different shit

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 9w

I’d argue that, used properly, using genAI can be MORE intellectually stimulating than other means of learning. You can basically probe the world’s knowledge with pretty good reliability on-demand, so the feedback loop for learning gets much much shorter. Again I’m not arguing that having it write all your essays or code is good for learning, but asking targeted questions definitely can be.

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So does ChatGPT if you prompt it to

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lEveryone learns in different ways. I am cognizant of AI hallucinations and I’m not going to just take everything it says at face value. But I think to some extent you’re missing what I’m saying: not every question has an answer that exists somewhere on the public Internet. Sometimes it’s really useful to ask niche questions that I couldn’t just Google and have AI give me an idea. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a replacement, but a complement to traditional methods

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What equation?

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