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Feeling Cranky About AI and CS Education


’ve been around for a while. I graduated from college before most schools (certainly most small colleges) had CS majors and CS degrees.

)There’s little interest in considering the extent to which, by incorporating generative AI into our teaching, we end up supporting a handful of companies that are burning billions in a vain attempt to each achieve performance that is a scintilla better than everyone else’s.c. )There’s little interest in thinking about what’s going to happen when the LLM companies decide that they have plateaued, that there’s no more money to burn spend, and a bunch of them fold—but we’ve perturbed education to such an extent that our students can no longer function without their AI helpers. Get Involved By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.

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