Lindsey Kuper on Nostr: another thing about this whole CS-professors-using-LLMs discussion is that I've been ...
another thing about this whole CS-professors-using-LLMs discussion is that I've been hearing some of my colleagues excitedly say things like, "now that LLMs can generate good code, I don't need grad students anymore!", which horrifies me because of what it implies about how they thought of grad students this whole time: as code generation machines, I guess?
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