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On sabbatical, but co-teaching a new class @browncsdept.bsky.social this sem on agentic coding! We're going to use it to figure out how to fit it into standard classes, and relate it to edu and cogsci literature. Best part—doing it with @kfisler.bsky.social and Littman! cs.brown.edu/courses/csci...

I have an idea for a human-agent interaction that builds mental models instead of leaving you with a pile of code to review. Would you like to pick it up for an assignment?

Lovely. Would love to hear it!

I'll try to flesh it out over the weekend. Will see if I can squeeze it into bsky posts or a different format is better.

Maybe give me a sneak preview before you put too much time into it, because it may be totally not relevant to our course plans for the course, and I can tell you that early.

No worries, I just need 10 minutes to flesh out the idea properly

Wrote it as a silly little post dev.to/naugtur/dont...

Thanks, this is very helpful. I've been thinking of code review for a long time now, as it became easier and easier to obtain 3rd party code. In fact, @joepolitz.bsky.social pivoted his entire dissertation to do really good work about teaching code and test review. ↵

One of my frustrations using Claude is that it exhibits some behaviors that are especially anti-review. (I've been compiling lots of notes…need to clean them up and hit publish.) But even humans don't do a particularly great job of that story-telling. Maybe coding agents can do it *better*!

Joe, this article reminds me of the exact same motivation text we wrote in your papers ~12 years ago! dev.to/maame-codes/...

I think a critical thing pedagogically is that students got code to review *after attempting it themselves*, which requires some structure to encourage/enforce. My current syllabus wording about AI says... 1/

“A good way to go about learning in this course is to do the work yourself first, then go back and see how the LLM would have done it. Then you may be able to notice things, like the LLM generating extra unnecessary code, or doing something in a more or less complex way than you did it...” 2/