Is it just me, or does anyone else use AI not just to write code, but to learn. Since I've been using Claude I've learned a lot about Rust by having it build things for me, then working with that code. I've never been a front end guy, but I had it write a Chrome plugin for me, then I used that code to learn how it works. It's not a black box to me, but I don't need to look up some CSS stuff I've never used. I can prompt Claude to write it and then I can look at it then "Huh, that's how it works". Better than researching it myself, I can see an example of exactly how it's done, then I learn from that.

I'm doing a lot of new things I never would have done before. Yes, I could have googled APIs and read tutorials, but I learn best by doing, and AI helps me learn a lot faster.

The other day I've clicked on one of Outlook calendar's copilot prefilled questions: "who are the main attendees of this meeting". It started a long winding speech that went nowhere, so I typed in "but WHO are the attendees" and finally it admitted "I don't know, I can't see that".

Regarding Stanford specifically, I did not see the number broken down by academic or residential disability (in the underlying Atlantic article). This is relevant, because

> Some students get approved for housing accommodations, including single rooms and emotional-support animals.

buries the lede, at least for Stanford. It is incredibly commonplace for students to "get an OAE" (Office of Accessible Education) exclusively to get a single room. Moreover, residential accommodations allow you to be placed in housing prior to the general population and thus grant larger (& better) housing selection.

I would not be surprised if a majority of the cited Stanford accommodations were not used for test taking but instead used exclusively for housing (there are different processes internally for each).

edit: there is even a practice of "stacking" where certain disabilities are used to strategically reduce the subset of dorms in which you can live, to the point where the only intersection between your requirements is a comfy single, forcing Admin to put you there. It is well known, for example, that a particularly popular dorm is the nearest to the campus clinic. If you can get an accommodation requiring proximity to the clinic, you have narrowed your choices to that dorm or another. One more accommodation and you are guaranteed the good dorm.

I suppose cheating to get housing benefits is less of a dumpster fuck vs cheating to get ahead of other people in education.