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Thanks. I'm not teaching anymore (it don't pay nowhere near enough to support a family, alas), so I'm looking on from the sidelines. I'm also not spending any time getting my hands dirty with LLMs (aforesaid family, dontcha know?), so I'm on the sidelines there, too.

I do think we're heading for a pedagogical crisis, and I don't see much beyond hand-wringing coming from people in education. This is mostly because their technology skills are (by and large) very nearly nil - "cliometrics" in History, and "digital humanities" in English, are regarded as niche - so nearly everyone with influence within the profession has been blind-sided. I have one former colleague who retired last year, a few years ahead of her plan, rather than deal with LLMs.

Yours is, frankly, the first "practical" investigation of what's possible that I've seen, anywhere - I've passed it along to several people I know. Thank you for doing it, and please post anything else you may do in this space. There might even be a business opportunity in it? Education consultants can make good money, which is usually regrettable, but this specific topic is essential to address right now.



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