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0 pointstheturtletalks1y ago0 comments

You’re getting to the crux of the argument, knowing when to use AI. Doing or learning “It” in 2025 means using AI whether to understand it better or use it to get better grades.

My take is teach them to get better at asking questions and then teach them when to use their own understanding to change their answer for the better. How many times has an AI’s answer been 5/10 and with a few fixes it’s a 9/10. That comes with time. Getting them asking questions and learning the “when” later is better at least to me.

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palata1y ago

> Doing or learning “It” in 2025 means using AI whether to understand it better or use it to get better grades.

Depends, I think. If we are talking about writing an essay (and I believe we are), then the LLM is somewhere between useless and counter-productive.

Of course, if the LLM is used to understand an RFC (I would debate how useful it is for that, but that's another discussion), then it's different. The goal was to understand the RFC, it doesn't really matter how you did it. But the goal of writing an essay is not to end up with a written essay at all. Nobody cares about it, you can burn it right after it's graded.

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palata1y ago

> Doing or learning “It” in 2025 means using AI whether to understand it better or use it to get better grades.

Depends, I think. If we are talking about writing an essay (and I believe we are), then the LLM is somewhere between useless and counter-productive.

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