The article is professional.

Soooo many comments here cite the "overreacting" point and then go on to prove it.

Another pack of evil volunteers trying to give us free stuff. Vote with your wallet. Stop paying your $0 per month until these crooks feel the pain.

One important thing is whether the tutoring is making better students, or just gaming the test.

And after graduation they can grind leetcode, and after that they can practice social cues to get in the management class. It's gamed tests all the way down.

For people who choose that career path. Still, somewhere somebody is doing some work.

The uggos I guess

Are those independent?

IB may become important for US college admissions over time, but that's more aspirational so far.

True, I only listed it because, at least where I live, high schools often do one program or the other. If it's an IB school, you end up taking the APs on your own (ie, there isn't a class focused on that content, though the IB curriculum should, in theory, end up covering the same stuff, at least for the major subjects).

That kind of thinking pops up very prominently in the article.

"Why can't faster typing help us understand the problem faster?"

Because typing is not the same as understanding.

The typing referred to here is not "the typing part of coding" (fingers touching the keyboard), it's the whole coding (LLM is not a typing aid, it's a coding aid).

And coding faster CAN help us understand the problem faster. Coding faster means iterating, refactoring, trying different designs - and seeing what does and doesn't work, faster.

I think they explain "why" very clearly. They say the problem is people who don't understand their own contributions.

Assume I want to believe exactly what you're saying. What is that, though?

a. "Has already won"

b. "Might be a year or two, or five, or ten"

You’re playing chess. You see that you have a forced mate in several moves. You’ve already won, but it will happen in 2, or 5, or 10 moves.

(This isn't how chess mate-finding works.)

Yeah, exactly. One example of a low-trust society was the US in the decade after 1929.

One of the "innovations" in the bank runs of 1929 was that a farmer or business owner would lose all their savings in the bank, because of the bank run.

However, the loans they owed to that bank were still good, and would get bought by an "investor" for pennies on the dollar. They no longer had their bank account to make their normal loan payments from, yet the full repayments were still due, despite the original bank that made the loan going under and closing its doors.

So many farmers ended up having to sell or foreclose on their farms and then attempt to rent them back from the new owners.

I'm sure that happened at least once, but most of the time it didn't. This is where the concept of the penny auction came from. Those were far more common. Basically locals prevented outsiders from bidding in foreclosure auctions by either tricking or physically preventing them from getting to the farm (where the actual auction was held). Then the original owner bought the farm back for a few pennies as there were no other bidders.