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Giving them an LLM to help with syntax errors, at this stage of the tech, is deeply unhelpful to their development.

The foundation of a computer science education is a rigorous understanding of what the steps of an algorithm mean. If the students don't develop that, then I don't think they're doing computer science anymore.

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The use of a LLM in this case is to show them where the problem is so that they can continue on. They can't develop an understanding of the algorithm they're studying if they can't get their program to compile at all.

> Giving them an LLM to help with syntax errors, at this stage of the tech, is deeply unhelpful to their development.

I mean if the alternative is quitting entirely because they can't see that they've mixed tabs with spaces, then yes, it's very very helpful to their development.

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