alt Hacker NewsIn my recent programming exam (in an MSc in AI), I asked students to reflect on how generative AI has changed their coding. Almost all remarked that it's a great time-saver, but it makes them lazy and worse at coding.
And yes indeed, their ability to answer basic questions about coding on the same exam has drastically dropped versus last year.
Is the problem the use of AI in coding, or using AI in coding in a curriculum designed without that assumption? Because if AI is an effort-saver, than a curriculum that isn't designed with its use in mind will just result in the students doing less work, in which case learning less is unsurprising but not really an "AI makes you less knowledgeable" problem but an "insufficiently challenging curriculum for the actual context" problem.