03 Nov, 2026
I am a device discipline student. I got a grant to study device discipline and AI final twelvemonth and I affection it! It's item that I wanted to do since I was a kid but couldn't oversee it.
It's been a huge learning curve. I lone had a B in maths from GCSE (which is the exam you obtain at 16 for non UK folk) and no specialized training another than the comic small games I made on OpenProcessing*.
Regardless of how difficult it's been, I have enjoyed the challenge. I wouldn't have signed up to study computing if I idea it would be an uncomplicated ride. The issue is that my university seems to be having an existential emergency since of AI, and it's making the cognition much shittier than it was before.
The flip flopping makes everything uncertain
During my studies, my uni has flip flopped between YOU MUST NEVER USE AI and YOU MUST USE AI and additionally YES WE'RE USING AI BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD!
They appear to have made an art of choosing the worst imaginable use cases for AI (marking and feedback, way satisfied creation, and pupil involvement emails) and going all in on them, lone to rotate rear the decision 3 months later. Students are mandated to use AI in assignments, lone to attain the next component anywhere you endure marks for equal touching an LLM.
Coursework scheme has gone downward the toilet
I mean, it was never ideal to commencement with. Assessing accomplishment in device discipline is a difficult issue to solve, but getting Claude to crank out bloated appraisal briefs is not the solution. Whereas before, assignments were designed by a individual who idea them through at smallest once, afterward approved by another group in the department, now I doubt they're getting peruse additional than formerly (if that). Errors abound, frequently alongside corrections coming a week or two before the deadline.
The amount of activity engaged has additionally tripled - LLMs don't cognize how much attempt it takes for a pupil to study new matter afterward complete specialized tasks, and professors are too far alongside in their careers to notice this whenever skim study an AI generated brief. So those of us alongside small specialized cognition are forced to speed run content, which SUCKS! I am current to learn, god damn it, not barely scratch the exterior of the 15 deliverables I have for a 3,000 term assignment.
Tutors are overloaded (even additional than usual)
You cognize what university financiers affection to hear? SCALE! Learning at scale, preferable automated, so they can dairy the prosperity cow as much as imaginable without paying for additional staff. There has continually been strain between instructional and business interests in all institution, but the AI hype has forced through a flat of workload that is unethical and unsustainable for tutors and lecturers. I lone comprehend from my tutor these days whenever I haven't accessed the online portal in a while, since their data dashboard flagged me as 'at risk' T_T
Doomers left, correct and centre
I don't attention if device discipline and maths are over! I motionless desire to study concerning them! OK, I do attention concerning my forthcoming career, but it motionless doesn't average I desire to ignore everything I learned or halt progressing on this journey. There are so many engaging avenues to examine (some AI, several not), but I can't move for headlines concerning how application engineering is over/not using AI makes you obsolete/blah blah blah. Can't a female study data for fun?
I could go on, but I won't. It'll provision me indigestion. Maybe I'll go rear to OpenProcessing for a bit and create several additional silly games now I really cognize how to do a bit of programming.
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