He's "one of the good ones".

Nah they cling to every mainstream celebrity they can get.

Where it gets really challenging is that LLMs can take the assignment input and generate an answer that is actually more educational for the student than what they learned d in class.

That's if the LLM is right. If you don't know the material, you have no idea if what it's spitting out is correct or not. That's especially dangerous once you get to undergrad level when learning about more specialized subjects. Also, how can reading a paper be more informative than doing research and reading relevant sources? The paper is just the summary of the research.

and get a level of engagement equal to a private tutor for every student.

Eh. Even assuming it's always 100% correct, there's so much more value to talking to a knowledgeable human being about the subject. There's so much more nuance to in person conversations than speaking with an AI.

Look, again, I do think that LLMs can be great resources and should be taken advantage of. Where we disagree is that I think the point of the assignment is to gain the skills to do research, analysis, and generally think critically about the material. You seem to think that the goal is to hand something in.

The bigger trap IMO is going into a field you aren't passionate about.

I went to an art school for a degree in audio engineering and I encountered seniors in their final year who had no idea what the fuck they were doing because they didn't seek out any opportunities outside of classes. I interned at a recording studio for about two years while I was in school and that prepared me better than any class I took. This is an industry where you need to be passionate about what you're doing because work is rare in the beginning and the pay is pretty shit. There were several kids in my advanced practicums who didn't even know how to properly wrap cables or mount microphones onto stands. I couldn't help but think to myself "why the fuck are you even here". You really have to go out of your way and fight for every opportunity you can get in this industry. I'm fortunate to be able to make a living in it but somehow some of the people I graduated with came out with less knowledge than what I learned in my freshman year.

It just baffles me that people get degrees in these highly competitive industries without any sort of drive to actually make a career. Interesting to hear that this happens in STEM fields as well.

I mean yeah, obviously they're profitable. It's the convenience though. Sometimes they have good deals if you don't want to buy a giant pack of something.

There are so many automated bots posting links every couple of minutes. I feel like I sometimes have to wade through tons of garbage to get to interesting posts. I've been blocking tons of bots and communities but it still feels like it takes effort to find content which isn't what I want. I want somewhere that I can find interesting content when I'm taking a shit. Lemmy isn't quite there yet.

I use duckduckgo and they have bangs. Put !yt at the start of your search and it'll automatically search youtube, !g for google, !a for Amazon, etc... Loads of bangs for basically every service out there.

Long press any setting and then it'll copy the markdown to your clipboard.

Downtime depends on your instance. I switched from lemmy.world to lemm.ee a little while back and haven't had any issues. Seems a lot more reliable.

Sync dev said he's planning on adding kbin support too iirc.

There's nothing wrong with having an ad supported version if people want to use it.

Sync for Reddit was insanely customizable. Give it a shot and spend some time poking around the settings.