Prof. Dierk König

@dierk-koenig.bsky.social

Prof. at @FHNW, Groovy in Action, Java Champion, Web, Frege, Artist

LLM's are helpful because they're trained on years of high quality educational material and forums where people helped each other. People aren't visiting forums or paying for educational content anymore because of LLM's. The well isn't going to magically fill itself in perpetuity.

by request i'm going to share a quick thread of collections where people have pulled together articles / resources / arguments about ai harms and how to resist them this is by alphabetical order in my bookmarks, it's not comprehensive, feel free to add to the list of lists

A take I see often online is that it doesn't matter if code is "clean" - readable, simple, decoupled, easy & fast to test - as long as it works. They're missing the point. Code that's hard to understand, complex, tightly-coupled and hard/slow to test is very likely to break. There's no tradeoff.

Incredible how many slopfondlers openly say stuff like "Do you expect me to do [tedious thing I should've automated or designed around already] by hand??" when defending their toy.

Solidarity with these students who want no part in this experiment: "A small but vocal minority of Estonian students say they refuse to use AI on moral grounds, citing issues such as water consumption by data centers or political complaints about U.S. tech companies, teachers say.”

How to Fight AI Brain Rot at School? For One Country, It’s With Free ChatGPT

The experiment offers one of the first large-scale looks at the effect that coordinated AI adoption can have on students’ reasoning, retention and confidence.

wsj.com

Brillant, and what I've been saying since vibecoding emerged: "From the bottom: no juniors entering the pipeline, so no new seniors. From the top: existing seniors slowly losing the depth that made them senior. The pipeline is collapsing from both ends simultaneously." (via @spinscale.bsky.social)

AI didn't kill your junior pipeline. You did | Andrew Murphy

AI didn’t kill the junior pipeline; companies did, because someone saw Claude write a for loop and decided that meant they could stop training humans. The result is an industry cheerfully pulling the ...

andrewmurphy.io

This instructor did what so many of us are doing: adapt. The grief is not because we can't adapt or because we "fear technology" or because we are "in denial." It is because we have had the chance to have this amazing experience of helping/watching students figure out what they think and value that.

 Like so many professors who have been confronted with the dispiriting new reality of student work, Peters adjusted, adding some handwritten brainstorming processes to her course, in the hope of making it A.I.-proof. But when she presented these new expectations to her students, something unexpected happened. “A wave of sadness washed over me, and I actually got choked up in front of the class.” Peters writes. “ ‘Before AI,’ I told them, ‘Students used to work hard to come up with their own ideas. I’d help, and they’d struggle, but they’d come to something that was their own. That doesn’t happen anymore and I grieve that.’ ”
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2mo ago

Twelve professors and faculty members write about how A.I. is changing their work. Attitudes range from cautious optimism to abject despair. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

“SW dvmt is about programming” is like saying “management is about holding meetings” and since AI can create an agenda, invite ppl, schedule a room, and assemble action items, AI can replace management. BTW new KPI is tokens used for mgmt replacement.

for my project, what is the best *.md file that will confuse any AI bot, burn an insane amount of tokens, and put me on their blacklist? The file will be written in navajo, demand a proof that 10^23 invalidates fermat’s theorem, and make all vibe coders order a t-shirt with “kick me” on the backside