AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
Stanford’s CS336 course has just released a set of strict rules for using AI tools like Claude in assignments—and the reaction on Hacker News suggests this isn’t just about cheating. It’s a signal that AI agents are becoming a core part of how developers learn, test, and build software. The guidelines, posted in a GitHub repo, explicitly ban students from using AI to generate code, debug, or even explain concepts without direct supervision. Yet they allow limited use of AI for research and brainstorming, framed as a way to “augment human creativity.” This isn’t just an academic debate. It’s…
The Skills Gap Is a Canyon: Why Companies Can’t Find Developers Who Can Actually Build
Boot camps and tutorials produce syntax knowledge but not builders. Every hiring manager in tech has the same story: hundreds of applications, dozens of candidates who can recite array methods, and almost nobody who can architect a solution to a real problem without hand-holding.