The Fresh Prince of Donair
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- Great minds take alike. Living in Brookline the pipeline starts horrendously early too. Box checkers and grade grubbers, it’s a way of life but not of independent thought or intellectual curiosity, just clinging to any chance of status and financial stability.
- At my spiciest, I'd argue that the American college system has become a way of gatekeeping, a pipeline for our own faux-meritocratic nomenklatura. Especially at the Brand Name schools. POSIWID. There are prep and feeder schools that exist just to grease the skids if money and name alone isn't enough
- I’m pretty pro-AI but god damn is doing this missing the entire point of college and learning. You need to think and do the hard work to build the skills to effectively wield the tools. But our attitude to university education is also to blame here: we treat it as a prereq for financial stability
- In a country with no safety net. Is it any wonder kids are cheating their way through their classes? In my day it was shared exam keys stolen or photocopied by an enterprising frat pledge or TA, now it’s AI. College is an extremely high-stakes game to have a good career, not a place to learn.
- If you're a dev at any phase in your career, please for the love of god practice some detachment from the code you write.
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View full threadGenuinely found it hard to get this mindset, even though its clearly healthier
- It’s been hard for me too at times, it’s a universal struggle when you care about your work but it’s so easy to let it overrule your own good sense and make you look start raving mad 😅
- Like, code is a craft, and I viscerally understand loving something you designed and built, but people have to use your shit at some point, and oftentimes someone else is going to come to improve it or fill in gaps, and you can't have a temper tantrum and be in tears on a call about it
- Your attitude when building POCs should be "here's this piece of shit I made, have fun with it" and never think about it again.
- Which is weird because I was told for years now that the general public hates AI, but when I bring it up to people in real life not in the tech industry, they're generally positive about it.
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View full threadI kinda know why, their work intersects more with art and aesthetic, and a coworker of mine whipped up a frontend interface for an idea in 5 minutes with ChatGPT that was good enough for internal work.
- Yeah, there's that, being in an already overcrowded field, and I think on a technical standpoint being as far removed from the technology as a lot of people not in tech. Not a great combo.
- Conclave today?
- still kind of think the way to attack LLM use in graded writing is to make students submit two drafts and explain their changes. has the advantage that if they’re using LLMs it teaches them how to use LLMs
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View full threadlearning to love revision has been a long but very good process for me. Whether it’s my own first draft or somebody else’s, when I can turn 1200+ words into <1000 words that say the same thing, it feels like an acrobatic stunt, nothing like it
- I'm both a developer and a writer. There are very similar processes in both lines of work, and both took a long time for my ego/imposter syndrome to get used to, but doing revisions either on your own or with a great editor is nothing short of how you describe it.
