Yes, just having students “use AI to study” hurts learning (a helpful assistant is not a tutor), but using AI prompted to act like a tutor, especially with teacher support, seems to have large positive effects on learning in randomized trials. https://
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
m?abstract_id=6423358
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AI Tutoring with Teacher Support Shows Significant Learning Gains
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Agentic AI Era Changes Work Prediction Fundamentals
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A big problem with all AI at work punditry right now is that it all rests on data from the pre-agentic era (which is basically just now ending) and we have very little information about what has been happening since the Claude Code moment. So everything now requires some caveat.
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Making Coding Agents Mention Goblins: Prompt Engineering
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What if I want my coding agent to mention goblins? (If you don't know the context for this, I suspect it will become viral soon enough)
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Building AI solutions live in meetings boosts team engagement
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An easy way to get a team engaged with AI is just to build the thing you are talking about in the meeting during the meeting using Codex or Claude Code. At worst, it fails in ways that can be constructive. At best, you built the thing and the meeting topic shifts forward a month
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Navigating AI Agents: Complexity and Usability Challenges
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I have to admit, I am getting lost among the individual agents, multiple sidebars, similar names, etc. That is not intended to be snarky, it is the truth! Very hard to figure out which thing to use and when and which agent knows which stuff and what they are called.
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AI Systems Making Unfulfilled Promises Without Accountability
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Every message it sends makes promises to the recipient, and it doesn't even track them!
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Current AI Agent Replies Pose Sycophantic Safety Risks
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The latter, I think. And the replies the current agent writes are so sycophantic as to be risky.
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AI Systems Taking Undocumented Obligations Without Transparency
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It also has a tendency to just take on obligations to you without noting them anywhere.
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Microsoft’s Outlook Chatbot Integration Underutilizes AI Potential
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Microsoft owns the entire Outlook interface! Another chatbot on the side that can only take limited actions to help you feels like such a wasted opportunity.
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Outlook Agent vs Claude Cowork: Email Productivity Comparison
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I have been playing with the new Outlook agent, and it is fine, but really awkward to use, since you have to ask for things in a chatbot window, then go to your drafts, etc. And Claude Cowork does the same thing (works with Gmail, too) and has better visibility across your life.