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This framing cuts to a real tension: if models handle coding, optimization, debugging, and systems design, what's left to teach? Willison is respected, this will resonate with builders and educators alike. The substance depends on whether it's diagnosis or prescription, but either way it's pointing at a structural shift in what skills matter. Worth reading to figure out what parts of your team's hiring and onboarding you should rethink.
The curriculum problem is real: if agents can one-shot homework, what do you assign? Eric's answer is forcing students into the constraints of real codebases and unfamiliar systems. This is the first serious engineering school response to agents making academic code exercises obsolete. For builders: this is what institutional gatekeeping looks like when it actually adapts.
The curriculum problem is real: if agents can one-shot homework, what do you assign? Eric's answer is forcing students into the constraints of real codebases and unfamiliar systems. This is the first serious engineering school response to agents making academic code exercises obsolete. For builders: this is what institutional gatekeeping looks like when it actually adapts.