How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments(thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
284 points by azhenley 19 days ago | 271 comments
tl;dr: A CMU professor teaching Machine Learning in Production redesigned assessments after AI agents could complete all his assignments: written reflections and reading quizzes were replaced with mandatory 15-minute in-person TA check-ins, exams were weighted more heavily, and assignment scope was scaled up (e.g., extending a 500k-LOC Zulip codebase instead of a toy Flask app). Grading itself is now partially automated via LLM-as-a-judge with human review, freeing TAs for face-to-face interaction. He acknowledges these changes violate some evidence-based pedagogy (fewer low-stakes assessments) but sees no alternative as models keep improving.
HN Discussion:
  • ↑Fellow educators share the struggle and validate the article's problem framing
  • ↑In-person oral exams or interviews are the correct solution, aligning with the article
  • ~Flipped classroom model would be a better alternative to the article's approach
  • ~The real problem is students seeking grades not learning; systemic critique beyond article's fixes
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