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#OpenAI #GenAI

Oh, and remember, these agents can still introduce infinite loops despite checking and testing their own work 😬

#genai #softwareengineering #apprenticeships #github #copilot | Jon Jackson Yesterday I took the plunge and demonstrated Agentic AI software development to my students for the first time... Long overdue? Maybe. Too early? Also, maybe. These were final year degree apprentices, some of whom already using GitHub Copilot in their workplace, so I considered this a low risk audience. Introducing this for first-years who are still learning how to code? That doesn't seem to be the right thing to do (yet)... I'll continue to reevaluate, of course. What are you reflections on introducing Agentic AI (not just standalone LLMs) to students for software development or other disciplines? Oh, and remember, these agents can still introduce infinite loops despite checking and testing their own work 😬 Would a newbie have spotted this? Maybe this is another teaching opportunity to add to the pile. #genAI #softwareengineering #apprenticeships #github #copilot

Recently I took the plunge and demonstrated Agentic AI software development to my students for the first time.

Long overdue? Maybe. Too early? Also, maybe.

These were final year degree apprentices, some of whom already using GitHub Copilot at work, so I considered this a low risk audience...

Excerpt from a GitHub Copilot session history, accessing an issue it originally ignored and apologising for the oversight.

My poor little GitHub Copilot agent got confused and totally built the wrong thing by ignoring the spec in an originally referenced GitHub issue but I think I got it back on track... 🤓

#genAI #software #agenticAI

My colleague and I just published a short preprint

Gunton, R. and Jackson, J. (2025) “No Shortcuts to Learning: Enhancing Higher Education Assessment Design through Formative Efficiency Analysis in the Age of Generative AI.” EdArXiv. Available at: doi.org/10.35542/osf...

#academicSky #GenAI #AIEd

Contributed some lightweight comments to the Google doc, thanks for sharing

This paper introduces the concept of Formative Efficiency as a means of evaluating and enhancing assessment design within Higher Education. Using the example of a literature review assignment, recommendations are made for how Generative AI (GenAI) tools may enable educational benefit at each step in the process. It is proposed that effective assessment design should encourage and incentivise students to re-invest any time saved by GenAI into other learning activities which lead to formative benefit.

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My colleague and I just published a short preprint

Gunton, R. and Jackson, J. (2025) “No Shortcuts to Learning: Enhancing Higher Education Assessment Design through Formative Efficiency Analysis in the Age of Generative AI.” EdArXiv. Available at: doi.org/10.35542/osf...

#academicSky #GenAI #AIEd

Being an academic means sitting on a train at 8am and suddenly wondering if you can pull in citation counts to @zotero.org 🤓

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The Intelligence Age In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.

Every document they produce is just various flavours of Sam’s manifesto ia.samaltman.com

Nice!!

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Cloudflare down 😬

What a time to be alive

#DigiTechFest25 was awesome 🎉

Huge thanks to our guest speakers and those apprentices who had their work showcased 👏

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Today is #DigiTechFest25 at @qmul.bsky.social for our Digital and Technology Solutions degree apprentices.

On the agenda:

- Guest speakers and Q&As
- Apprentice video showcase
- Competition Awards

First time we're running this, and I am super excited for it!

#degreeapprenticeships

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

If you use GenAI for your news, you’re more than likely spoon feeding yourself misinformation 👍

GenAI does not fail gracefully. It fails and obfuscates.

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Graph showing Microsoft Copilot outages reported in the last 24 hours. A spike in 200+ reports in the last hour (4-5pm)

Come on Copilot, I've got slop to generate! #GenAI

Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground

For good, ill, neutral, or mixed, "Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground: Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s 'largest A.I.-empowered' university..." 🤓 NY Times unlocked article: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... #AIinEducation #CalState

PowerPoint slide with “Capture. The. Outputs.” in huge 100pt+ font

Quick sound check on this slide please.

Is it loud enough?

#academicSky

Can confirm I wouldn’t touch this with a barge pole

ha!

Society has peaked with this

Absolute pure chef's kiss. A company called Ugmonk have invented pieces of paper to make notes on as a way to stay offline. One of them is a ring-binder notebook ugmonk.com/en-gb/collec...

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It has solid brass discs and analog task signals

I think… the paper must do the tasks for you too, right? … right?

This interchange made me smile 😊

LinkedIn comment by Jon Jackson: By opening with deliberate, fallacious engagement bait like "there's no assignment, paper, or project that Al can't do better, faster, and with zero effort", you got me to engage. Congratulations 👍 You have also tanked your own reputation in front of those that actually know what they're talking about. Congratulations 👍

Feeling spicy over on LinkedIn 👀

Gotta love the pseudo-educator AI hypester grift

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I’d hope so… 😝