I'm losing sleep over this quagmire we're in. Students are using AI to complete their work without thinking, and it gives them the *illusion of competence* (just like "very clear lectures" do). It's really urgent we find a way to teach them to work with AI effectively for learning support.

Claude says my solution’s strengths include the use of a heuristic in an A* search. My solution doesn’t use A* and doesn’t claim to. There is no heuristic function in the code that Claude analysed. Where does Claude get these ideas? From similar problems it has analysed? From my usage history?

Good software is far more nuanced than just how many devs work on it.

Skype hired good devs and won the video calling desktop market. It got to 1,000+ devs and then… this startup with 50 devs washed the floor with them for mobile chat + calls. It was called WhatsApp.

In 2005, the average rent is estimated to have been $759 per month. It is now estimated to be $1,521.

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