Alexandre Brito

[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.

[Superman @thesupermannx]

China published the most uncomfortable paper on vibe coding.

ETH Zurich tested 100 developers in a controlled, commercial-grade vibe coding environment to see who actually succeeds.

The findings are brutal.

The researchers tracked computer science achievement, written communication skills, and general cognitive reasoning.

They wanted to see what actually predicts vibe coding proficiency when you never touch a line of source code yourself.

Two major predictors emerged.

Written communication proficiency mattered. The ability to structure thoughts and articulate intent unambiguously in text directly impacts what the AI builds.

But that wasn't even the main takeaway.

Computer science achievement was a massive, dominant predictor of success.

Even when researchers controlled for general intelligence and reasoning skills, CS background still heavily dictated who built working software and who completely crashed.

In fact, CS knowledge contributed roughly twice the unique predictive variance of writing skills alone.

Why? Because vibe coding isn't about writing code. It’s about debugging logic.

When an AI agent builds a complex application and quietly breaks an edge case under the hood, a non-technical user looks at the glowing UI and assumes it works.

They don't know what questions to ask. They don't know what logic to challenge. They lack the mental models to recognize architectural catastrophe.

You can prompt your way past syntax.

You cannot prompt your way past a fundamental lack of engineering intuition.

The hype told us that learning to code is dead because language is all you need.

The data just proved the opposite.

To truly master the vibe, you still need to understand how the machine thinks.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

rip to the metaverse

[F Muniz Platt @FMuPlatt]

Incrível !

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Just had a catch up to review our first year of @Cloudflare’s Lisbon office. The talent and culture have been highlights. Dealing with the gov’t on immigration issues: unbelievably antiquated, backward, and awful. Feel like we were very misled by gov’t promises on that front.

[Miles Beckett @mbeckett]

The trillion dollar question. Why are COVID cases increasing while deaths are decreasing? The answer is simple. It's called Simpson's paradox and it's the result of incorrectly pooling data and arriving at a false conclusion. A thread 1/9 #COVID19 #ThursdayThoughts

[Yascha Mounk @Yascha_Mounk]

I know many people who have radically changed their political views. I know very few people whose personality has significantly changed.

Perhaps those who take great pleasure from denouncing anyone who disagrees with them as assholes should take a minute to reflect on that...

[Rui Teixeira @ruipfteixeira]

O deputado @AndreCVentura faltou desde o início da legislatura a 150 votações, mais de 10% das votações ocorridas (~12,03%). Nas três Comissões das quais faz parte, tem 39 presenças e 49 ausências (faltou a ~55,68% das reuniões). Andamos a sustentar quem não quer fazer nada?

[Nïck Brown🌻 @sTeamTraen]

Since 5G is trending (in my head), an anecode that was told to me when I visited the operations centre of a large French mobile phone operator a few years ago.

I asked one of the engineers who worked on mast deployment if they got a lot of opposition. /1

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Somebody decided to invite Dr. Rishi Desai onto Fox.

I don’t think they’ll be asking him back.

[Smarter Every Day @smartereveryday]

If this doesn’t convince you to become a Patron of @3blue1brown .... well.....
It will.

Also wash your hands.

[Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung]

We can now read the Imperial College report on COVID-19 that led to the extreme measures we've seen in the US this week. Read it; it's terrifying. I'll offer a summary in this thread; please correct me if I've gotten it wrong.
https://t.co/AwE2cHIbeJ

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The first 20 years you measure success with grades, only to realize that the real value is in learning to learn and critical thinking.

The second 20 years you measure success by how much money you made, only to realize that how you spend time, and with whom, is most important.

[jcd @jcaetanodias]

@MCF977 Fiz este exercício para um amigo que trabalha em Alfragide (no Allegro) e vive no Seixal.
Sem considerar as milhentas taxas e taxinhas que aparecem em muitas compras (álcool, açúcar, Cópia Privada, etc), já está nos 46%. Onde está a mentira?

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

1. There are unconfirmed reports that Qasem Soleimani commander of Qods Force (Iran's external security agency) has been killed in drone strikes. If true, this will be a major moment in US-Iran relations & Supreme Leader will undoubtedly see this as a major provocation/act of war

[Global Peace Index @GlobPeaceIndex]

These are the most peaceful countries in the world in 2019

1 🇮🇸 Iceland 1.072 →
2 🇳🇿 New Zealand 1.221 →
3 🇵🇹 Portugal 1.274 ↑
4 🇦🇹 Austria 1.291 ↓
5 🇩🇰 Denmark 1.316 ↓

[Pedro Vicente @neteinstein]

Tirando a economia Portugal tem muita coisa para se orgulhar.

[Megh Wright @megh_wright]

Netflix: We pulled a Patriot Act episode from Saudi Arabia because they told us to and "we're not in the truth to power business"

HBO: We lost over $200k/tripled our libel insurance premiums over a John Oliver segment about a CEO, so here's another one https://t.co/eQvOvkW9Uq