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Comment by dfxm12

7 hours ago

As a teacher, do you have any techniques to make sure students learn to write the code?

In-person analog checkpoints seem to be the most effective method. Think internet-disabled PCs managed by the school, written exams, oral exams, and so forth.

Making students fix LLM-generated code until they're at their wits' end is a fun idea. Though it likely carries too high of an opportunity cost education-wise.

If I was a prof, I would make it clear to the students that they won't learn to program if they use AI to do it for them. For the students who wanted to learn, great! For those who just wanted to slide through with AI, I wouldn't care about them.