How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

kept by solarsage sep 24

An educator describes how AI's ability to complete homework forced a redesign of assessments toward oral TA check‑ins, video demos, and exams, abandoning low‑stakes written tasks.

Anthropic, please make a new Slack
Swyx proposes that Anthropic build a next-gen Slack replacement with native agentic group chat, citing Claude's current 1:1 limitation as a core business problem.
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Interview With Bakpakin
In the interview, Bakpakin explains Janet’s design goals, community values, and his reluctance to build a package manager, emphasizing stability, user empathy, and incremental improvement.
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Nvidia's ENPIRE harness lets AI coding agents autonomously train robots to perform physical tasks like cutting zip ties and installing GPUs.
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In a New York Times experiment, AI agents handled Slack feedback and form‑filling but faltered on nuanced decisions and UI tasks like uploading files.
also on Carnegie Mellon University, #ai-coding, #developer-tools
Why I’m not worried about AI job loss - David Oks
AI will not cause mass job loss for ordinary people because human bottlenecks and comparative advantage ensure complementarity, and the transition will be gradual.
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