2026-09-03 07:28 UTC
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@epicstove@lemmy.ca 2026-09-03 17:12
A lot of jobs are heavily encouraging AI usage (some even straight of forcing it). Knowing how to use it in a work environment in a way that won’t fuck everything up is a useful skill. Biggest part of that is not blindly trusting what the AI says and/or copy pasting the result without double checking it first. But also using optimal prompts, knowledge sources, etc. There’s also other forms of AI other than LLMs that are used in research and the medical field. How those would be used in HS idk but they are pretty cool to learn about if your a science nerd like myself.
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@SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 2026-09-03 16:55
Because as it turns out, it’s far from just a chatbot these days. Coding agents are but an example. Kids need to learn about it because companies are using it more and more, and they prioritize hiring those who know how to use it. This will only increase as AI is proving itself to be more and more capable. In this context, that means understanding how it works beyond the initial “chatbot”. That means knowing what agents are, what turns are, what tool calls are, what memory is and why the quality of the harness matters so much. But it also includes knowing about it’s dangers, such as hallucinations and sycophancy and how to mitigate them (give it a way to prove its result for hallucinations and neutral questions for sycophancy). Though I agree before high school kids probably don’t have the ability to judge its output yet. Hell most adults don’t.