Atrophy: A novella about AI eroding a student's mind
The novella 'Atrophy' explores the impact of AI on a computer science student's academic experience. The protagonist grapples with feelings of inadequacy as they compare their efforts to the efficiency of AI-generated solutions. This narrative highlights the tension between human effort and technological advancement in education.
- ▪The protagonist is a freshman studying computer science.
- ▪They discover AI-generated solutions that outperform their own work.
- ▪The story conveys a sense of vertigo as the student realizes the ease of using AI.
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A novella ATROPHY Gilles Louppe* A noir novella. Freshman year of computer science. An AI tab always open. English PDF 1.3 MB PDF français 1.3 Mo * Every sentence by Claude. Anthropic. That’s the thing nobody warns you about. Not that it will fail. That it won’t. From chapter 1 I should go to sleep. I should submit the assignment and close the laptop and go to sleep. Instead I google “longest increasing subsequence solution.” The first result is a Stack Overflow thread and the second result is a GeeksforGeeks page and the third result is something different. It’s a link to a conversation. Someone pasted the assignment prompt into ChatGPT and the response is there. The full solution. Clean, commented, correct. With an explanation that’s better than the textbook.
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