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Several. Yesterday a friend with no prior coding experience or knowledge showed me an app he initially built to help him study for public administration job pos
by plagasul 3mo ago
Several. Yesterday a friend with no prior coding experience or knowledge showed me an app he initially built to help him study for public administration job positions. The exams for this positions are public (spain), but the tools are scarce, expensive or he did not like. So he used lovable, then switched to web gemini and claude, then paid claude. He now has +130 very active users on an initial free tier, while he figures out. The app is on github, runs on vercel with supabase, react, tailwind, bun... he has no idea what he is doing. I even installed claude code for him, got him an ssh key so he can do it locally, etc.
Another: claude code cracked for me some software that was calling a home that did not exist anymore via headless ghidra.
Another: I am a teacher, and qualifications and feedback is very very time consuming, specially in loose workflows with several sources and tools that are not connected. During class presentations I take loose notes. Now I have a local folder where I drop my 1 student list, with names and emails, 2 my loose notes, and 3 a qualification & feedback sheet model; then claude creates a sheet per student, formats and copies the feedback to the right sheet cell, waits for my corrections, then sends everything to their school emails. Much easier, much less time consuming.
- plagasul 3mo agoThat said, I am very critical of AI, I align with voices and reports calling for AI companies to give back, as they took much, and for AI as public infrastructure, to an extent. I see datacenters as probably inevitably future public infrastructure, with a public model that could resemble that of electricity etc (in spain) or more public (less private). I am wary of the actual and future ecological and social impact of datacenter building and other problems AI is or will create. It is difficult to negate its usefulness, though: it is like having several very fast assistants with expert knowledge on several fields, that just get better every month. We will see.
- jubilanti 3mo agoSo you're sending your students private data to Anthropic?
- plagasul 3mo agoSee answer above. Thanks.
- malshe 3mo ago> Now I have a local folder where I drop my 1 student list, with names and emails, 2 my loose notes, and 3 a qualification & feedback sheet model; then claude creates a sheet per student, formats and copies the feedback to the right sheet cell, waits for my corrections, then sends everything to their school emails Yikes! Is this legal in your country?
- plagasul 3mo agopossibly not or grey area under GDPR if I use identifiable information, as it is sent to Anthropic for processing, no matter if used for training or not, but I am unsure about this, I should probably anonymize and research it more, thanks for pointing it out
- plagasul 3mo agoThere is another institution I teach at that gives us Gemini, but not via API, which limits its use for this kind of work to an extent, I could do it via drive, I assume. There being a contract puts the institution and Google as responsible of the data. The first institution I was talking about has MS Teams, without AI afaik, but if they contract it I guess I can do the same with sharepoint, etc.
- bix6 3mo agoYou could just send Anthropic scrambled names / emails and then unscramble locally?
- plagasul 3mo agoyes something like that, additionally most steps do not require data going through claude anymore, as it already wrote the script that take the student list and the qualifications model and produce a model per student, AND the script that takes that and sends each to its right email. The problematic part is when claude reads my notes and formats them into each of those student qualification sheets. There I would need some form of scrambling as you suggest, not to hijack the thread but ideas appreciated for a minimal setup. I believe claude respects .gitignore.
- ulrashida 3mo agoDo your students know their feedback is AI generated? A pre-AI example from the military : course reviews and performance assessments were changes to be from a set of about 70 descriptors instead of written custom. Instructors could modify them, but many didn't or did so only trivially. The system was junked in within three years because of the obvious: those giving feedback didn't own it, and those receiving feedback didn't value it.
- plagasul 3mo agoFeedback is not AI generated, just structured grammar corrected and pasted at the right spot. I then review the output to see if it remains within what I meant to convey with my feedback. This is relatively simple feedback, I have 'highlight' and 'to improve' fieldsm, with a few sentences in each, very focused. If the feedback felt depersonalized or its meaning or tone changed I would fix it or not use this method. For longer forms of feedback it may not work.