Notices by Ted Kaminski (tedinski@hachyderm.io)

@grimalkina @inthehands

Postmortem/retrospective analysis is a major way engineers learn, and I don't recall *formally* doing it when I was a student. (I would personally, ofc, "how did I get that wrong?" on any assignment being one of the most basic things to do.)

But in this case, they'd written a great retrospective... except they'd run face-first into cognitive dissonance and failed to overcome it.

I don't know how to teach overcoming it, except to point it out where I can.

@inthehands Oh wow. I had a similar experience of feeling like active learning was counterintuitive when I first learned how to teach that way.

But I don't think I would have guessed that students would have the same misperception.

@inthehands This has been my near-universal experience with junior developers using ChatGPT.

It somehow *feels* amazingly productive and helpful to them. One mentee did a mini-postmortem on a project that didn't go well, and really, really, powerfully struggled with the cognitive dissonance between "chatgpt helped me be so productive, really useful!" and "I just spent 2 weeks instead of 2 hours on a task because I asked chatgpt instead of reading the documentation."