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Lindsey Kuper
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another thing about this whole CS-professors-using-LLMs discussion is that I've been hearing some of my colleagues excitedly say things like, "now that LLMs can generate good code, I don't need grad students anymore!", which horrifies me because of what it implies about how they thought of grad students this whole time: as code generation machines, I guess?
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Lindsey Kuper · 10w
I don't think this is LLMs' fault -- it's revealing something that was already rotten about academia, especially STEM academia. I hate the way we talk about grad students. I don't use the word "trainees" -- it grosses me out. You train *dogs* (or LLMs). You *advise* students. My students are for the...
Dan Ports · 10w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq53xcxrd8ssu62m63v45frt2th3qjvfj4c4t3mvf0k7dz6amr2afst0pxx0 I am reminded of a faculty candidate I saw once who referred to grad students as interchangeable work units... in a meeting with grad students during his interview.