Alec Lacroix

Founder @quest0logy @StFoodMtl & @CCndCo. Digital Signage, Computer Vision, Brand Experience | Beauty in little things, arts, music, photography

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.

A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.

The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.

The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

Hey @happn_app, you call singles “products.” That’s a scary word to ship in a dating context. 💀

We can help on UX & Copy. - DM

#UX #productdesign #dating #datingapp

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

The most powerful men in the universe. @elonmusk ’s wall is savage. And also, I think he’s right and it’s terrifying.

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

Hey @AirCanada
I’ve been waiting to talk to a representative on the phone for a combined 8h. Now your automated message states that you can’t even place my call on hold. Are you drunk or something?? Or is it our beloved legal Canadian #cannabis?
#aircanada #travelling #airport

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

Just posted a photo @ Ko Phangan, Surat Thani, Thailand https://t.co/912azZ4bVJ

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

When you look for a shop & find this view in the process. #pachamama @ Ko Phangan, Surat Thani, Thailand https://t.co/uHjbiMv91o

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

Just posted a photo @ Rivière du Diable https://t.co/p6uaXmkMR3

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

Just posted a photo @ Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie https://t.co/UWt9Gckbwu

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

@SkyNewsNaz I just wear my face on the mask. It’s not solving the problem but it makes people smile under their mask :)

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Imagine what machines will be able to do in the next 5-10 years.

Boston Dynamics' machine shows its flawless gymnastic routine. @AndrewYang

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The shoe on this desk is not real, it is augmented reality (AR).

The future of digital marketing and e-commerce will be powered by AR.

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

@m2jr https://t.co/6iWvzWgisF

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

Good Morning ☀️
#Manhattan X #Brooklyn

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

It probably does cost $40m-$50m to build a game-changing piece of business software

You need that many engineers, marketers, and salespeople

You usually have 5-7 years to get there

If you can self-fund from revenue, all the better

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

Good to hear it from someone who walked the path. How do you onboard these folks on your high standards? Because you WILL have to work with some of them. 1-2 tips not on https://t.co/YbYzuFFPMD? @jasonlk

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

If you are truly, really committed to excellence.

I mean deeply.

Many people will not really want to work with you.

Push on.

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

In my first start-up, my CTO and co-founder was not our best engineer. Not close.

But whatever A+ engineer we needed, somehow, the next week they were there, working for her. No matter how obscure the need, how niche.

I took this for granted.

Now I see it is Magic.

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

Who else has been thoroughly selected by the Facebook exec team to test their new #UX #Design? What do you think so far? 😆 #facebookdown #facebookstilldown @facebook

[Rebekah Radice @RebekahRadice]

Things You Can Control:

- Your effort
- How personally you take things
- What you believe
- Your priorities
- How kind you are
- What you eat
- What you talk about
- What you think about
- Your open mind
- Your happiness
- How serious you are
- Who you hang out with

#motivation

[Alec Lacroix @aleclacroix]

Hey @CanadianTire Mettre une date d'expiration sur notre histoire d'amour, nos souvenirs de jeunesse, mon imaginaire d'enfance - C'est une date d'expiration à votre image, capital de marque sympa et votre #ExperienceClient
Trop de $ émis? Mon butin de 7$, c'est plaisir, pas du $

[Conseil québécois du commerce de détail (CQCD) @CQCD_Express]

L'emblématique « argent » Canadian Tire, dont les billets font place depuis près de cinq ans à une monnaie sous forme électronique enregistrée sur une carte de fidélité, aura bientôt une date d'expiration https://t.co/g5nWwFJ7Sn

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

How hard being a VC is: 9.

Only can make money if hunt, find, source and close very, very best deals. Every single year.

Need 2-3 Unicorns + Decacorns every fund

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How hard being founder is: 95

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