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Unpopular opinion: Computer science syllabuses were designed back in a time when working AI was nothing but scifi. A course that does not teach a deep and practical understanding of how LLMs work is no longer representative of computer science, and you need so much material to do so that massive compromises will need to be made in other parts of the syllabus
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