Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat
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They will care a lot more when all the new engineers they try to hire end up falling prey to the LLM ouroboros
Sounds like a problem that's going to be after next quarter!
Fair point - throw it on the tech debt pile, we’ll get to it
at some pointneverNbd, they expect the bubble to have popped by then and their current company to have gone belly up. They just want to squeeze as much money as possible before that.
Why would they care?
Of course they don't care. They only care about profits. Nothing more.
Nor should they. It's up to the educational institutions to move with the times and make assessments that make sense in the current world.
When calculators were invented, was it the calculator manufacturers problem that students could use them to do their maths homework that was just straight maths equations that a calculator can solve easily? No, it's the educators problem.
The tech companies are cheaters too
"Tech companies don't care that students use calculators to cheat"
AI is just a tool like a calculator. No company cares about their employees beyond getting work out of them. If a potential employee shows that they can use the tools at their disposal to get the job done then why would they care?
Bingo.
If a school keeps giving their students assignments that current tools can answer easily, the school needs to change their assignments.
So, back to hand written reports, and physical books only found at the library?
Yeah, if it’s essential that the students prove that they can write a report/essay - in person, hand written or on a offline computer with no AI.
The other better option is that you don’t give assignments that are just written essays and book reports.
They love getting people out there that don't know how to work a job out there without LLMs. Long term customers with money for sure. Problem is if these engineers start building bridges that collapse due to hallucinations. LLMs are s great tool for learning and doing some of the repetitive work. But somebody building a bridge better sniff out if the llm starts talking out of it's ass and that comes from actually knowing your shit and having experience. I use LLMs all the time, but the result needs to pass my inspection, always.