Writing on learning and AI.
Every post ran on LinkedIn first, under the name of the person who wrote it. Each one is reprinted here in full, with a link to the original.
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Ilya Breyman
The Effort Illusion
We treat effort as evidence of worth. But “effort” hides two very different things, and AI is keeping the counterfeit while discarding the real one.
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Ilya Breyman
Chicago Law’s device policy and AI zoning, course by course
In 2008 the dean of Chicago Law shut the Wi-Fi off in his classrooms, and the ban faded. Last Thursday the same school went much further, and this time I think it will hold.
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Alex Dolinski
The Brown University take-home exam story
A professor replaced an in-class midterm with a harder take-home, and almost everyone aced it. The same students collapsed on the final — and the question everyone asked about it is not the interesting one.
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Ilya Breyman
Memorizing facts in the age of AI
I used to think AI would make memorizing facts pointless. Building with AI every day changed my mind, and the reason comes from how we route work between models.
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Alex Dolinski
An Anthropic paper on AI use and learning
Anthropic put 52 developers through the same coding task with and without AI. Six distinct usage patterns came out of it, and three of them undermined learning.
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