I'm a teacher who is constantly learning new things. I can learn things I would have never been able to learn before because of AIs like ChatGPT. My students are learning more and faster than ever before.
Learning Management Systems like Canvas and Blackboard made a lot of money. I could argue they are obsolete now."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?"}},"_tags":["comment","author_RecycledEle","story_38226030"],"author":"RecycledEle","children":[38233249,38235713,38238535,38285944],"comment_text":"OpenAI has changed education.
I'm a teacher who is constantly learning new things. I can learn things I would have never been able to learn before because of AIs like ChatGPT. My students are learning more and faster than ever before.
Learning Management Systems like Canvas and Blackboard made a lot of money. I could argue they are obsolete now.","created_at":"2023-11-11T17:13:00Z","created_at_i":1699722780,"objectID":"38232188","parent_id":38226030,"story_id":38226030,"story_title":"Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T15:36:17Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"nhinck2"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"ChatGPT, write a believable interaction between a smart curious student and ChatGPT that demonstrates the student learning from the interaction."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Teaching with AI"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai"}},"_tags":["comment","author_nhinck2","story_37340314"],"author":"nhinck2","comment_text":"ChatGPT, write a believable interaction between a smart curious student and ChatGPT that demonstrates the student learning from the interaction.","created_at":"2023-09-01T04:25:11Z","created_at_i":1693542311,"objectID":"37346784","parent_id":37346355,"story_id":37340314,"story_title":"Teaching with AI","story_url":"https://openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai","updated_at":"2024-09-20T15:01:25Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"_1pos"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"Hi guys, I am a researcher and entrepreneur from London.
Innovation has been slow here, I regularly browse and read ycom news and thought I'd share my UK ed-tech startup that's sprung out of my AI-driven pedagogy research project here at Goldsmiths, UoL.
Not sure what it's like over in the states or other countries, but we see here lots of educators using ChatGPT for creating assignments and marking; while simultaneously complaining about students using ChatGPT to write their work.
It's really bad at the university level here at the moment, feels like we have a loop of ChatGPT producing learning material, students submitting work written by ChatGPT, and then lecturers marking it with ChatGPT.
The basis of my research is around maintaining a human in the loop, learning from our past mistakes with social media and the internet, and trying to apply deeptech (mainly AI) in a way that I see it having a long-term benefit to student learning outcomes - everyone seems obsessed with the short-term quick wins, and being fresh out of the UK education system, I'm all too familiar with being a guinea pig for trying new learning methodologies out.
Currently, I have a quiz generator hosted on [redacted], it uses OpenAI API to create a quiz on an input topic or based on uploaded PDFs, so basically upload lesson slides or document, get a quiz, give it to students; win-win, save time, while also not just a lesson plan generator (there's a lot of GPT wrapper tools built for teachers here that are different versions of AI lesson plan generators).
We're currently offering this tool for free, and I am personally covering the API costs, this has been fine until a recent 4000% increase in traffic; we're figuring out our next steps as we speak.
If anyone is keen to share insight, invest, support, or anything else with this project, feel free to get in touch with me at [redacted], or drop me a message at [redacted], just quote this post :)"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Edu AI, a company grown from my research (AI and pedagogy)"}},"_tags":["story","author__1pos","story_39002200","show_hn"],"author":"_1pos","children":[39003841,39003852,39004079,39004978],"created_at":"2024-01-15T15:46:02Z","created_at_i":1705333562,"num_comments":17,"objectID":"39002200","points":28,"story_id":39002200,"story_text":"Hi guys, I am a researcher and entrepreneur from London.
Innovation has been slow here, I regularly browse and read ycom news and thought I'd share my UK ed-tech startup that's sprung out of my AI-driven pedagogy research project here at Goldsmiths, UoL.
Not sure what it's like over in the states or other countries, but we see here lots of educators using ChatGPT for creating assignments and marking; while simultaneously complaining about students using ChatGPT to write their work.
It's really bad at the university level here at the moment, feels like we have a loop of ChatGPT producing learning material, students submitting work written by ChatGPT, and then lecturers marking it with ChatGPT.
The basis of my research is around maintaining a human in the loop, learning from our past mistakes with social media and the internet, and trying to apply deeptech (mainly AI) in a way that I see it having a long-term benefit to student learning outcomes - everyone seems obsessed with the short-term quick wins, and being fresh out of the UK education system, I'm all too familiar with being a guinea pig for trying new learning methodologies out.
Currently, I have a quiz generator hosted on [redacted], it uses OpenAI API to create a quiz on an input topic or based on uploaded PDFs, so basically upload lesson slides or document, get a quiz, give it to students; win-win, save time, while also not just a lesson plan generator (there's a lot of GPT wrapper tools built for teachers here that are different versions of AI lesson plan generators).
We're currently offering this tool for free, and I am personally covering the API costs, this has been fine until a recent 4000% increase in traffic; we're figuring out our next steps as we speak.
If anyone is keen to share insight, invest, support, or anything else with this project, feel free to get in touch with me at [redacted], or drop me a message at [redacted], just quote this post :)","title":"Show HN: Edu AI, a company grown from my research (AI and pedagogy)","updated_at":"2024-09-20T16:07:28Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"logiduck"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"> It's really bad at the university level here at the moment, feels like we have a loop of ChatGPT producing learning material, students submitting work written by ChatGPT, and then lecturers marking it with ChatGPT.
> Currently, I have a quiz generator hosted on [redacted], it uses OpenAI API to create a quiz on an input topic or based on uploaded PDFs
I guess I'm confused on your intent here? You are complaining that things are really bad with everyone using AI and your response is to build and release another AI tool?
> everyone seems obsessed with the short-term quick wins, and being fresh out of the UK education system
Seems like an AI quiz generating is a short-term quick win.
I was hoping when i first started reading your post that it would be pedagogy based around teaching to learn without AI and how to use AI in the best ways. Maybe I am misunderstanding the project, but seems like another cheap short-sighted attempt and getting kids to regurgitate content in the least meaningful way possible.
Edit: Reading your site, edu-ai.co.uk not sure if this is a troll post or not, but looks like every post you have there is generated by ChatGPT."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Edu AI, a company grown from my research (AI and pedagogy)"}},"_tags":["comment","author_logiduck","story_39002200"],"author":"logiduck","children":[39004947,39005750],"comment_text":"> It's really bad at the university level here at the moment, feels like we have a loop of ChatGPT producing learning material, students submitting work written by ChatGPT, and then lecturers marking it with ChatGPT.
> Currently, I have a quiz generator hosted on [redacted], it uses OpenAI API to create a quiz on an input topic or based on uploaded PDFs
I guess I'm confused on your intent here? You are complaining that things are really bad with everyone using AI and your response is to build and release another AI tool?
> everyone seems obsessed with the short-term quick wins, and being fresh out of the UK education system
Seems like an AI quiz generating is a short-term quick win.
I was hoping when i first started reading your post that it would be pedagogy based around teaching to learn without AI and how to use AI in the best ways. Maybe I am misunderstanding the project, but seems like another cheap short-sighted attempt and getting kids to regurgitate content in the least meaningful way possible.
Edit: Reading your site, edu-ai.co.uk not sure if this is a troll post or not, but looks like every post you have there is generated by ChatGPT.","created_at":"2024-01-15T18:14:58Z","created_at_i":1705342498,"objectID":"39004079","parent_id":39002200,"story_id":39002200,"story_title":"Show HN: Edu AI, a company grown from my research (AI and pedagogy)","updated_at":"2024-09-20T16:07:48Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"croes"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["students","learning"],"value":"High school replaces teachers with AI tools to personalize learning for students"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-tools-replace-teachers-high-school-students-learning-education-2024-8"}},"_tags":["story","author_croes","story_41284603"],"author":"croes","children":[41284997],"created_at":"2024-08-18T19:10:28Z","created_at_i":1724008228,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"41284603","points":1,"story_id":41284603,"title":"High school replaces teachers with AI tools to personalize learning for students","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:42:15Z","url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-tools-replace-teachers-high-school-students-learning-education-2024-8"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"homar"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["learning"],"value":"I have been working on ClassChat(https://www.classchat.co), a tool that connects to Canvas(The Learning Management Solution for most Colleges/Universities) and reviews all of the content of the class you choose. You can then ask it anything and it will have context on all of your class material.
Sign up if you\u2019re a student to get early access."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students"],"value":"ClassChat: Canvas-Connected ChatGPT for Students with Context on Class Material"}},"_tags":["story","author_homar","story_35731775","ask_hn"],"author":"homar","children":[35732300],"created_at":"2023-04-27T17:40:22Z","created_at_i":1682617222,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"35731775","points":1,"story_id":35731775,"story_text":"I have been working on ClassChat(https://www.classchat.co), a tool that connects to Canvas(The Learning Management Solution for most Colleges/Universities) and reviews all of the content of the class you choose. You can then ask it anything and it will have context on all of your class material.
Sign up if you\u2019re a student to get early access.","title":"ClassChat: Canvas-Connected ChatGPT for Students with Context on Class Material","updated_at":"2024-09-20T13:58:24Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"PraiseAsuquo"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"*Sylvio AI* is an intelligent, all-in-one developer companion app that brings together powerful AI tools to streamline software development, content creation, debugging, documentation, and learning\u2014all in one place. Whether you're a solo indie hacker, student, or experienced developer, Sylvio AI helps you ideate, build, and polish your projects faster and smarter with zero setup or cost.
---
## 1. *Who is the App For?*
* *Developers* (from beginners to experienced engineers)\n* *Students* learning programming and computer science\n* *Startup founders / indie hackers*\n* *Technical writers / educators*\n* *Freelancers / dev content creators*\n* *Product managers & DevOps professionals* (for planning and documenting)
---
## 2. *What Are Its Benefits?*
* Saves *time* by automating repetitive dev tasks\n* Helps you *learn* and understand concepts (e.g., regex, errors, snippets)\n* Boosts *productivity* through centralized tools\n* Improves *code quality* and project documentation\n* Simplifies *project planning and communication*\n* Offers *one-click generation* for common dev tasks like README.md, changelogs, boilerplate, etc.\n* 100% *free and ready-to-use*
---
## 3. *What Problem Does It Solve, and How?*
### Problem:
Developers constantly jump between ChatGPT, Stack Overflow, GitHub, code snippet sites, name generators, planning boards, and more\u2014fragmented workflows slow down productivity and creativity.
### Solution:
Sylvio AI *centralizes all essential developer tools in one smart platform*, giving you focused, pre-built tools tailored specifically for developer workflows.
Examples:
* Instead of prompting ChatGPT 10 different times, generate a README, app name, changelog, and boilerplate instantly from your project description.\n* Copy-paste an error message, and Sylvio explains it and offers real-time fixes.\n* Convert code across languages (e.g., JS \u2192 Python) with one click.\n* Create flashcards and summaries from tech docs to study or teach.
---
## 4. *Why Not Just Use ChatGPT Instead?*
Using ChatGPT is flexible, but:
| ChatGPT | Sylvio AI |\n| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| Requires prompting skill | Comes with structured tools/templates |\n| General-purpose | Built specifically for devs |\n| No memory or project context | Organizes tools per project |\n| Manual formatting | Auto-generates docs/boilerplate in clean formats |\n| No bundling | Combines tools into workflows (e.g., App Planner \u2192 README \u2192 Boilerplate) |
*Sylvio AI* offers *context-aware*, plug-and-play tools that eliminate the need to engineer prompts or babysit the model\u2014everything is *purpose-built* and fast."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Sylvio AI \u2013 Your Smartest Quiet Teammate"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.sylvioai.xyz"}},"_tags":["story","author_PraiseAsuquo","story_44816926","show_hn"],"author":"PraiseAsuquo","children":[44816948],"created_at":"2025-08-06T19:57:37Z","created_at_i":1754510257,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"44816926","points":3,"story_id":44816926,"story_text":"*Sylvio AI* is an intelligent, all-in-one developer companion app that brings together powerful AI tools to streamline software development, content creation, debugging, documentation, and learning\u2014all in one place. Whether you're a solo indie hacker, student, or experienced developer, Sylvio AI helps you ideate, build, and polish your projects faster and smarter with zero setup or cost.
---
## 1. *Who is the App For?*
* *Developers* (from beginners to experienced engineers)\n* *Students* learning programming and computer science\n* *Startup founders / indie hackers*\n* *Technical writers / educators*\n* *Freelancers / dev content creators*\n* *Product managers & DevOps professionals* (for planning and documenting)
---
## 2. *What Are Its Benefits?*
* Saves *time* by automating repetitive dev tasks\n* Helps you *learn* and understand concepts (e.g., regex, errors, snippets)\n* Boosts *productivity* through centralized tools\n* Improves *code quality* and project documentation\n* Simplifies *project planning and communication*\n* Offers *one-click generation* for common dev tasks like README.md, changelogs, boilerplate, etc.\n* 100% *free and ready-to-use*
---
## 3. *What Problem Does It Solve, and How?*
### Problem:
Developers constantly jump between ChatGPT, Stack Overflow, GitHub, code snippet sites, name generators, planning boards, and more\u2014fragmented workflows slow down productivity and creativity.
### Solution:
Sylvio AI *centralizes all essential developer tools in one smart platform*, giving you focused, pre-built tools tailored specifically for developer workflows.
Examples:
* Instead of prompting ChatGPT 10 different times, generate a README, app name, changelog, and boilerplate instantly from your project description.\n* Copy-paste an error message, and Sylvio explains it and offers real-time fixes.\n* Convert code across languages (e.g., JS \u2192 Python) with one click.\n* Create flashcards and summaries from tech docs to study or teach.
---
## 4. *Why Not Just Use ChatGPT Instead?*
Using ChatGPT is flexible, but:
| ChatGPT | Sylvio AI |\n| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| Requires prompting skill | Comes with structured tools/templates |\n| General-purpose | Built specifically for devs |\n| No memory or project context | Organizes tools per project |\n| Manual formatting | Auto-generates docs/boilerplate in clean formats |\n| No bundling | Combines tools into workflows (e.g., App Planner \u2192 README \u2192 Boilerplate) |
*Sylvio AI* offers *context-aware*, plug-and-play tools that eliminate the need to engineer prompts or babysit the model\u2014everything is *purpose-built* and fast.","title":"Show HN: Sylvio AI \u2013 Your Smartest Quiet Teammate","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:29:16Z","url":"https://www.sylvioai.xyz"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Swadesh9422"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"Hey everyone,
I\u2019ve been doing customer discovery with CS students learning Data Structures and Algorithms. Right now, every AI tutor in the market is just a reactive chatbox (like ChatGPT next to a code editor).
The problem is, when a student is completely stuck on a logic problem (like Dynamic Programming), they don't even know what to prompt the AI. They just stare at the screen.
I am validating a new UX: A Proactive AI Mentor without a chatbox.
Instead of the user prompting the AI, the AI sits in the background and watches the code editor. It only intervenes via GitHub-style inline comments when a specific event triggers (e.g., they haven't typed in 60 seconds, or they write an O(n^2) loop when it should be O(n)).
Basically, it feels like a Senior Dev looking over your shoulder, rather than a search engine waiting to be asked.
As developers and founders, do you think this "event-driven/proactive" UX is the future for highly technical learning, or am I overcomplicating it? Would love to hear your thoughts."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Are AI \"Chatbot Wrappers\" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX"}},"_tags":["story","author_Swadesh9422","story_47136197","ask_hn"],"author":"Swadesh9422","children":[47136844,47152453],"created_at":"2026-02-24T12:20:22Z","created_at_i":1771935622,"num_comments":3,"objectID":"47136197","points":2,"story_id":47136197,"story_text":"Hey everyone,
I\u2019ve been doing customer discovery with CS students learning Data Structures and Algorithms. Right now, every AI tutor in the market is just a reactive chatbox (like ChatGPT next to a code editor).
The problem is, when a student is completely stuck on a logic problem (like Dynamic Programming), they don't even know what to prompt the AI. They just stare at the screen.
I am validating a new UX: A Proactive AI Mentor without a chatbox.
Instead of the user prompting the AI, the AI sits in the background and watches the code editor. It only intervenes via GitHub-style inline comments when a specific event triggers (e.g., they haven't typed in 60 seconds, or they write an O(n^2) loop when it should be O(n)).
Basically, it feels like a Senior Dev looking over your shoulder, rather than a search engine waiting to be asked.
As developers and founders, do you think this "event-driven/proactive" UX is the future for highly technical learning, or am I overcomplicating it? Would love to hear your thoughts.","title":"Ask HN: Are AI \"Chatbot Wrappers\" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX","updated_at":"2026-07-14T10:03:47Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"weitendorf"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"I'm not going to pretend I know how to do Github better than Github, but I almost can't believe how poor their support is for fine grained access tokens, org/individual credentials, etc. are in the same era as Copilot/VSCode/AI devtools and vibe coding, as they drown in a rapidly growing volume of agent-driven usage.
It's going to keep growing way past how it is now. I often drive 4-8 agents at a time, many in the cloud or on different machines, and use github as a kind of send-off point or starting point literally every single time. In a couple months I hope to be doing that with 10-20 and if it were cheaper I'd go even further, because why not? But even now I'm spending $0.25-$5 every single time I send out an agent to do a sizable thing and obviously they are positioned to capture some of that, because nobody else just lets me pay them $5/mo for git and basic hosting that Just Works (when it's up) and gets out of my way.
So why do they not want me or anybody else to pay them to create delegated/short-lived identities, or at least make their auth token story better so that if there is a way to set that up properly, people use that instead of sending commits "Co-written by Claude Opus 5" (literally every single commit by Claude is a missed opportunity for Microsoft to provide a real identity/auth solution for coding agents)?
Why is there no Mythos-like code review specialist model that for non-F100 companies to get defensive cybersecurity reviews? Or why not even just a cheap and good / smart and fast specialist to review my agents' or my own work for problems. Have they not even talked about doing that? I'm not going to pay some chatgpt wrapper company run by 24 year olds to do that, I want to pay the company that I already pay for that kind of stuff, that has the most data of anybody in the world to do it.
Why can't I gig out work on github either? Do you know how many developers there are on the periphery that want that kind of work and spend their time on reddit/discord/github trying to break into the industry? If I could chuck $5 at some task for a guy in another country trying to break into software to do, without all the overhead and sketchiness it involves now, why wouldn't I do that? That's literally the same thing that people do with LLMs.
Why does github codespaces not have some SKU/version for colleges to offer students as learning environments or companies interviewing developers to use for dev environments? My company tried working on this btw, and the only real barrier to entry is how much you need to trust a company to give them all your developers' credentials by virtue of having root on the computers their credentials and IP come from. It would be 1000x easier to sell this to non-enterprises if your name was Microsoft, and everyone was already your customer and trusting you with identity/ip anyway.
Github actions are not interesting to me because I can just ask my computer to create a cloud vm and test stuff in there, and it does, and I don't have to configure YAML or learn some specific way to do it. That's like the opposite kind of product github should focus on, it's almost a market for lemons because if your usage is enough for the profit to matter to Microsoft you can just pay a guy to migrate you to any other compute provider. Github has unique/best-in-the-world assets and opportunities for products and services with way better margins/growth because of how deeply the global software and developer community depends on them.
Let me pay $1/mo/delegate identity and $100/mo on bounties and $10/pop on interview hosting and $0.10/hr for agent sandboxes. It would be so much easier for Microsoft/Github to create and win these markets than anybody else and it's where the growth is"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://depot.dev/blog/github-is-the-wrong-shape-for-this-new-world"}},"_tags":["comment","author_weitendorf","story_49103910"],"author":"weitendorf","children":[49104819,49104948,49105216],"comment_text":"I'm not going to pretend I know how to do Github better than Github, but I almost can't believe how poor their support is for fine grained access tokens, org/individual credentials, etc. are in the same era as Copilot/VSCode/AI devtools and vibe coding, as they drown in a rapidly growing volume of agent-driven usage.
It's going to keep growing way past how it is now. I often drive 4-8 agents at a time, many in the cloud or on different machines, and use github as a kind of send-off point or starting point literally every single time. In a couple months I hope to be doing that with 10-20 and if it were cheaper I'd go even further, because why not? But even now I'm spending $0.25-$5 every single time I send out an agent to do a sizable thing and obviously they are positioned to capture some of that, because nobody else just lets me pay them $5/mo for git and basic hosting that Just Works (when it's up) and gets out of my way.
So why do they not want me or anybody else to pay them to create delegated/short-lived identities, or at least make their auth token story better so that if there is a way to set that up properly, people use that instead of sending commits "Co-written by Claude Opus 5" (literally every single commit by Claude is a missed opportunity for Microsoft to provide a real identity/auth solution for coding agents)?
Why is there no Mythos-like code review specialist model that for non-F100 companies to get defensive cybersecurity reviews? Or why not even just a cheap and good / smart and fast specialist to review my agents' or my own work for problems. Have they not even talked about doing that? I'm not going to pay some chatgpt wrapper company run by 24 year olds to do that, I want to pay the company that I already pay for that kind of stuff, that has the most data of anybody in the world to do it.
Why can't I gig out work on github either? Do you know how many developers there are on the periphery that want that kind of work and spend their time on reddit/discord/github trying to break into the industry? If I could chuck $5 at some task for a guy in another country trying to break into software to do, without all the overhead and sketchiness it involves now, why wouldn't I do that? That's literally the same thing that people do with LLMs.
Why does github codespaces not have some SKU/version for colleges to offer students as learning environments or companies interviewing developers to use for dev environments? My company tried working on this btw, and the only real barrier to entry is how much you need to trust a company to give them all your developers' credentials by virtue of having root on the computers their credentials and IP come from. It would be 1000x easier to sell this to non-enterprises if your name was Microsoft, and everyone was already your customer and trusting you with identity/ip anyway.
Github actions are not interesting to me because I can just ask my computer to create a cloud vm and test stuff in there, and it does, and I don't have to configure YAML or learn some specific way to do it. That's like the opposite kind of product github should focus on, it's almost a market for lemons because if your usage is enough for the profit to matter to Microsoft you can just pay a guy to migrate you to any other compute provider. Github has unique/best-in-the-world assets and opportunities for products and services with way better margins/growth because of how deeply the global software and developer community depends on them.
Let me pay $1/mo/delegate identity and $100/mo on bounties and $10/pop on interview hosting and $0.10/hr for agent sandboxes. It would be so much easier for Microsoft/Github to create and win these markets than anybody else and it's where the growth is","created_at":"2026-07-30T00:22:24Z","created_at_i":1785370944,"objectID":"49104761","parent_id":49104373,"story_id":49103910,"story_title":"GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world","story_url":"https://depot.dev/blog/github-is-the-wrong-shape-for-this-new-world","updated_at":"2026-07-30T05:04:56Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"FloorEgg"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"I'm actually not really criticizing the decision so much the article and communications around it. If student learning outcomes are crashing and they desperately want to turn them around I understand why they would take dramatic action.
Giving students uncontrolled access to generic LLMs probably would hurt outcomes. Research process is slow (IRB and all that) so they are dealing with data from years ago (models that confident hallucinated a lot more than current SOTA) so if thats what they are basing it on its reasonable.
My frustration isn't with the decision (hey all teachers - no more chatGPT in the classroom). My frustration is with the reporting / nuance of "until we can research this better and figure out how to harness AI to improve outcomes and not undermine them"."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_FloorEgg","story_48600093"],"author":"FloorEgg","children":[48603639],"comment_text":"I'm actually not really criticizing the decision so much the article and communications around it. If student learning outcomes are crashing and they desperately want to turn them around I understand why they would take dramatic action.
Giving students uncontrolled access to generic LLMs probably would hurt outcomes. Research process is slow (IRB and all that) so they are dealing with data from years ago (models that confident hallucinated a lot more than current SOTA) so if thats what they are basing it on its reasonable.
My frustration isn't with the decision (hey all teachers - no more chatGPT in the classroom). My frustration is with the reporting / nuance of "until we can research this better and figure out how to harness AI to improve outcomes and not undermine them".","created_at":"2026-06-19T21:43:33Z","created_at_i":1781905413,"objectID":"48603605","parent_id":48603432,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T00:15:17Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"saguntum"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"I think there's a bubble around AI, but I don't think I agree with this argument. Google search launched in 1998, and ChatGPT launched in 2022.
In 2001, if Google had gone under like a lot of .com bubble companies, I think the economic impact visible to people of the time would have been marginal. There was no Google News, Gmail, Android, and the alternatives (AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, MSN Search) would have been enough. Google was a forcing function for the others to compete with the new paradigm or die trying. It wasn't itself an economic behemoth the way it is today.
I think if OpenAI folded today, you'd still have several companies in the generative AI space. To me, OpenAI's reminiscent of Google in the late 90s in its impact, although culturally it's very different. It's a general purpose website anyone with an internet connection can visit, deep industry competitors are having to adapt to its model to stay alive, and we're seeing signs of a frothy tech bubble a few years after its founding. People across industry verticals, government, law, and NGOs are using it, and students are learning with it.
One counterpoint to this would be that companies like Google reacted to the rise of social media with stuff like Google+, but to me the level to which "AI" is baked into every product at Google exceeds that play by a great margin. At most I remember a "post to plus" link at the top of GMail and a few hooks within the contact/email management views. In contrast, they are injecting AI results into almost every search I make and across almost every product of theirs I use today.
If you fast forward 20 years, I would be surprised if companies specializing in LLMs were not major players the way today's tech giants are. Some of the companies might have the same names, but they'll have changed."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/americas-future-could-hinge-on-whether"}},"_tags":["comment","author_saguntum","story_45570973"],"author":"saguntum","children":[45576781,45578598],"comment_text":"I think there's a bubble around AI, but I don't think I agree with this argument. Google search launched in 1998, and ChatGPT launched in 2022.
In 2001, if Google had gone under like a lot of .com bubble companies, I think the economic impact visible to people of the time would have been marginal. There was no Google News, Gmail, Android, and the alternatives (AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, MSN Search) would have been enough. Google was a forcing function for the others to compete with the new paradigm or die trying. It wasn't itself an economic behemoth the way it is today.
I think if OpenAI folded today, you'd still have several companies in the generative AI space. To me, OpenAI's reminiscent of Google in the late 90s in its impact, although culturally it's very different. It's a general purpose website anyone with an internet connection can visit, deep industry competitors are having to adapt to its model to stay alive, and we're seeing signs of a frothy tech bubble a few years after its founding. People across industry verticals, government, law, and NGOs are using it, and students are learning with it.
One counterpoint to this would be that companies like Google reacted to the rise of social media with stuff like Google+, but to me the level to which "AI" is baked into every product at Google exceeds that play by a great margin. At most I remember a "post to plus" link at the top of GMail and a few hooks within the contact/email management views. In contrast, they are injecting AI results into almost every search I make and across almost every product of theirs I use today.
If you fast forward 20 years, I would be surprised if companies specializing in LLMs were not major players the way today's tech giants are. Some of the companies might have the same names, but they'll have changed.","created_at":"2025-10-14T04:28:33Z","created_at_i":1760416113,"objectID":"45576266","parent_id":45575844,"story_id":45570973,"story_title":"America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints","story_url":"https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/americas-future-could-hinge-on-whether","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:52:07Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Espressosaurus"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"The amount of cheating and ease of it has gone way up based on my monitoring of teaching communities. Like it's not even close in terms of before ChatGPT vs. after ChatGPT.
Worse yet many educators are not being supported by their administration since enrollments are falling and the admin wants to keep the dollars coming regardless of if the students are learning.
It's worse than just copying Wikipedia because plagarism detectors aren't as effective and may never be.
It's an arms race and right now AI cheating has structural advantages that will take time to remove."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://addyo.substack.com/p/avoiding-skill-atrophy-in-the-age"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Espressosaurus","story_43791474"],"author":"Espressosaurus","children":[43797489],"comment_text":"The amount of cheating and ease of it has gone way up based on my monitoring of teaching communities. Like it's not even close in terms of before ChatGPT vs. after ChatGPT.
Worse yet many educators are not being supported by their administration since enrollments are falling and the admin wants to keep the dollars coming regardless of if the students are learning.
It's worse than just copying Wikipedia because plagarism detectors aren't as effective and may never be.
It's an arms race and right now AI cheating has structural advantages that will take time to remove.","created_at":"2025-04-25T15:19:25Z","created_at_i":1745594365,"objectID":"43794496","parent_id":43792735,"story_id":43791474,"story_title":"Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI","story_url":"https://addyo.substack.com/p/avoiding-skill-atrophy-in-the-age","updated_at":"2025-04-27T15:51:30Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"agentultra"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"A colleague of mine once taught a formal methods course for students working on their masters -- not beginners by any stretch.
The exercise was to implement binary search given the textbook specification without any errors. An algorithm they had probably implemented in their first-year algorithms course at the very least. The students could write any tests they liked and add any assertions they thought would be useful. My colleague verified each submission against a formal specification. The majority of submission contained errors.
For a simple algorithm that a student at that level could be reasonably expected to know well!
Now... ChatGPT and other LLM-based systems, as far as I understand, cannot do formal reasoning on their own. It cannot tell you, with certainty, that your code is correct with regards to a specification. And it can't tell you if your specification contains errors. So what are students learning using these tools?"},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["learning"],"value":"Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.13544"}},"_tags":["comment","author_agentultra","story_42780022"],"author":"agentultra","children":[42782209],"comment_text":"A colleague of mine once taught a formal methods course for students working on their masters -- not beginners by any stretch.
The exercise was to implement binary search given the textbook specification without any errors. An algorithm they had probably implemented in their first-year algorithms course at the very least. The students could write any tests they liked and add any assertions they thought would be useful. My colleague verified each submission against a formal specification. The majority of submission contained errors.
For a simple algorithm that a student at that level could be reasonably expected to know well!
Now... ChatGPT and other LLM-based systems, as far as I understand, cannot do formal reasoning on their own. It cannot tell you, with certainty, that your code is correct with regards to a specification. And it can't tell you if your specification contains errors. So what are students learning using these tools?","created_at":"2025-01-21T16:03:23Z","created_at_i":1737475403,"objectID":"42781624","parent_id":42780632,"story_id":42780022,"story_title":"Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation","story_url":"https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.13544","updated_at":"2025-01-21T18:03:36Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"cardanome"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"> If a student is learning on a teaching language without much adoption, there's just not much else a student can do but use the materials that part of the course.
I think that is the biggest advantage of using a teaching language. You can give them curated, high-quality examples and make sure they not led astray by crap code they find on the internet.
And in the ChatGPT era it forces them to actually learn how to code instead of relying on AI.
The main problem is that student motivation is what drives learning success. Just because something is good for them and theoretically the best way to learn does not mean they will like this. It is difficult to sell young people long term benefits that you can only see after many years of experience.
It seems to me that the majority of students prefers "real world" languages to more elegant teaching languages. I guess it is a combination of suspected career benefits and also not wanting to be patronized with a teaching language. I wish people were more open to learning language for the fun of it but it is what it is. Teach them the languages they want to learn."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Principles of Educational Programming Language Design"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFEDU/article/797/info"}},"_tags":["comment","author_cardanome","story_42427428"],"author":"cardanome","children":[42441051,42441820],"comment_text":"> If a student is learning on a teaching language without much adoption, there's just not much else a student can do but use the materials that part of the course.
I think that is the biggest advantage of using a teaching language. You can give them curated, high-quality examples and make sure they not led astray by crap code they find on the internet.
And in the ChatGPT era it forces them to actually learn how to code instead of relying on AI.
The main problem is that student motivation is what drives learning success. Just because something is good for them and theoretically the best way to learn does not mean they will like this. It is difficult to sell young people long term benefits that you can only see after many years of experience.
It seems to me that the majority of students prefers "real world" languages to more elegant teaching languages. I guess it is a combination of suspected career benefits and also not wanting to be patronized with a teaching language. I wish people were more open to learning language for the fun of it but it is what it is. Teach them the languages they want to learn.","created_at":"2024-12-17T11:53:05Z","created_at_i":1734436385,"objectID":"42440624","parent_id":42436177,"story_id":42427428,"story_title":"Principles of Educational Programming Language Design","story_url":"https://infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFEDU/article/797/info","updated_at":"2024-12-18T14:40:22Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sayonidroy"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["chatgpt","students","learning"],"value":"I believe this was in a pre-AI world. With AI you don't expect developers to dig through thousands of websites to find out why something isn't working. I will just ask ChatGPT because it saves me time.\nIn the context of learning, students usually look at answers directly because they don't have a lot of other options currently.\nwith Edmigo, we're trying to give them hints instead of telling them the answer directly so they can learn to solve on their own."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Simplifying programming with AI-tutors"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.edmigo.in/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_sayonidroy","story_41441990"],"author":"sayonidroy","comment_text":"I believe this was in a pre-AI world. With AI you don't expect developers to dig through thousands of websites to find out why something isn't working. I will just ask ChatGPT because it saves me time.\nIn the context of learning, students usually look at answers directly because they don't have a lot of other options currently.\nwith Edmigo, we're trying to give them hints instead of telling them the answer directly so they can learn to solve on their own.","created_at":"2024-09-05T05:46:01Z","created_at_i":1725515161,"objectID":"41453885","parent_id":41450305,"story_id":41441990,"story_title":"Simplifying programming with AI-tutors","story_url":"https://www.edmigo.in/","updated_at":"2024-09-24T22:26:46Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":379,"nbPages":19,"page":0,"params":"query=ChatGPT+students+learning&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":25,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":19},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":1,"total":1},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":5,"total":5},"total":5},"total":5},"fetch":{"query":13,"scanning":5,"total":19},"total":25},"query":"ChatGPT students learning","serverTimeMS":27}