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AI assistants change coding education, making skills rarer and more valuable

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A computer science educator reflects on the changing landscape of learning to code, noting that AI assistants can now help students bypass the late-night debugging sessions that were once a rite of passage. The educator advises students to pursue a degree while still actively engaging in writing code themselves, suggesting that AI has made fundamental coding skills rarer and thus more valuable. AI

IMPACT AI tools are changing how students learn fundamental coding skills, potentially increasing the value of human expertise.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece from an educator about the impact of AI on coding education.

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AI assistants change coding education, making skills rarer and more valuable

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · cwoodruff ·

    I miss the late nights in the college computer lab, stuck on a bug at 2 a.m. and tracing loops on scrap paper until it clicked. Students can skip those nights n

    I miss the late nights in the college computer lab, stuck on a bug at 2 a.m. and tracing loops on scrap paper until it clicked. Students can skip those nights now. The assistant is always awake. New essay: AI made coding skill rarer, which made it more valuable. My advice to stud…

    LINKS simplicityfirstphilosophy.substack.com/…/get-the-…

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