The new AI literacy: Insights from student developers(cloud.google.com)

2 points by gpi 15 hours ago | 3 comments

  • Imustaskforhelp 14 hours ago
    > "I don't want to pay for AI tools because it could lead me to overuse the models."

    I used to fall within this category but there are multiple providers like Claude,Gemini (especially AIstudio) provides me quite a large amount/near unlimited AI tool for free.

    Although, not in an agentic way but its also possible with Opencode and others to get free agentic access as well.

    I am also an student, currently high school, my personal experience is that my peers don't care about software and they won't for the most part. AI will help them cheat through the system.

    Also I am not sure how AI might be sustainable if someone is saying this to Google themselves that they don't use AI to not become dependent ie. paying makes one dependent so the question becomes as to why even pay for AI?

    I am not sure if it is as clear painted picture as the article projects.

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    • KellyCriterion 13 hours ago
      > question becomes as to why even pay for AI?

      Because your competitors will do so and they will be one step ahead :-)

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      • Imustaskforhelp 8 hours ago
        But at the end of the article, Google suggests that businesses should be more like these students.

        So is google, by this article, suggesting businesses to not pay for AI

        > Because your competitors will do so and they will be one step ahead :-)

        Then couldn't the same question have been applied during students as well. we are bounded by peer pressure as well and I wonder if something similar will be felt within schooling, atleast that's my feeling of how things progress but the article contradicts that but also in a way, contradicts the trillion dollar spending of AI.

        I hope that there becomes a resurgence of not show-offing AI use, but rather use it for prototypes, fine (as the students did) but have the final output be Human generated for the most part. I do agree with students that this is how it should be used but reality says that its being used to churn out AI Slop at quite high rates.