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 I have taught an advanced computer science class at UC Berkeley nine times. The class, Introduction to Database Systems, teaches how data is organized, stored, and managed by computer systems, and is meant to prepare students for their first forays into the software engineering profession.
I can’t overstate how damaging it is for students to use AI as a means of short-circuiting this process. Part of the purpose of a college course is in learning how to think about and work through complex problems; none of that is achieved if students trade the experience of coding for the convenience of chatbots. In doing this, my students weren’t just cheating the course. They were cheating themselves out of vital development as engineers, failing to make the connections that practice and hard work help form.
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