Breaking Rules in the Age of AI
Several educators have AI-enabled their courses, like: David Malan at Harvard CS50 provides an AI-powered “rubber duck debugger” trained on course-specific materials. Mohan Paturi at UC San Diego has deployed AI-tutors to his students. Ethan Mollick at Wharton uses AI as tutor, coach, teammate, simulator, even student, and runs simulations. Jeremy Howard’s Fast.ai encourages students to use LLMs to write code, with a strict verification loop. Andrew Ng DeepLearning.AI integrates a chatbot into the platform, next to code cells, to handle syntax errors and beginner questions. But no one seems to have eliminated reading material, nor added an “Ask AI” button to solve each question, nor run it at my scale (~3,000 students annually). ...