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For this to work, you'd have to feed all the children's work to the (AI) plagiarism detector before it could 'get to know' the students and what their writing style is like. Besides; LLM's all speak in different ways, and can easily be told to change their style - mine speaks like a caveman to save me output tokens. Sounds like a horribly expensive way to replace a teacher, who could do this with their eyes closed.

ahh. I'm sure we got it in 2003 as I think I was one of the first, £21k as a senior tech, or £40k in todays money.

You're making it worse

fixed that for you. Single status was 1997 ! I feel old.

It's weird how this works out. Back when we did MS-> Google transition which was around 2015 (I forget, it's been a long time). Our ICT, DT, Art and admin teams were really quick to move over all their lessons to Chromebooks. We had some issues from DT (literally two unsupported applications) but the majority objection was actually from maths ! I'm pretty sure it comes down to the people rather than what they are teaching, many immediately saw the benefits and adapted their teaching to suit. Many did not. It usually takes some insistence from the HT.

The cheaper models have also got lot better: what I used to do 3 months ago in Claude opus and sonnet I can now have opus write up the plan and get dirt cheap GPT luna or sol 6.1 models go and do the research and implementation. literally gone from £100 per day to £25 without any loss in quality.

Not Edu; 4 sites across EU, UK and US. all Google

Surely someone can vibecode a replacement and release it on github as OSS by now?

If its just a dry joint, I found that reflowing them in an oven can work quite well. I recall we has some HP boards that suffered from dry joint issues. We'd strip anything melty off the board, add some flux then commandeer a cooker from food tech, whack it up to max and leave it in there 20min. Worked a charm. YMMV.

https://www.lg.com/us/terms i.e. use these in schools and the students can't sue LG, only the school.

Agent skills are basically markdown text files that you can write, or more likely get an agent to write, that have a bunch of rules eg don't do X on production, always ask about Y. You can have the coding agent run them when they run. Not infallible but good thing for engineers https://resources.anthropic.com/hubfs/The-Complete-Guide-to-Building-Skill-for-Claude.pdf

Already happening. I had an 'incident' a few months ago where Claude was trying to get some terraform working building some infrastructure, figured it would be simpler to delete the GCP projects and re-create them (should have been fine, nothing is designed as a single point of failure especially infrastructure). Off it went, until it stopped because it deleted the project it was running in. We've added some guard rails to our agent skills since then.

yeah for repeatable things Configuration as Code is the way forward - Automation tools such as Ansible/Puppet are good here too, especially with an AI writing that config.

I've been using Claude Code, Opencode and Pi. I'm starting to gravitate towards pi over the last couple of weeks. Although these are 'coding harnesses' they typically use a lot of system commands to understand and manipulate their environment - combined with a half decent model they are well suited to system tasks, and I am sure there are a number of OS specific skills around to give them a hand.

This really should be with your legal team. Contract law is notoriously difficult to understand and they will (should!) have a good understanding of how to pursue this.