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The build-a-language-model-from-scratch strand was not delivered: team projects absorbed the class time it needed, leaving only an optional reading

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2029: local conditions change quickly

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q1 i? When class time ran short in the back half of the quarter, the time set aside for the LLM-from-scratch strand went to the team projects, and what survived of the strand was an optional reading. → Yusuf Pisan 2026

Evidence

Yusuf Pisan 2026

Yusuf Pisan. (2026). Teaching Intro AI When the Tools Can Do the Homework: A Course Redesign and a Student Bill of Rights. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05175 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.05175

q1 · i? · design · r2

Gap between the course as designed and as taught in the single Spring 2026 offering. Evaluation comments registered the cost, with students naming the build-from-scratch work as what they most wanted and did not get, including a request to actually be taught how to make an LLM in class.

"The class time the syllabus had set aside for it in the back half of the quarter went instead to the team projects, which the students needed, and what survived of the strand was an optional reading."

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title The build-a-language-model-from-scratch strand was not delivered: team projects absorbed the class time it needed, leaving only an optional reading
description The build-a-language-model-from-scratch strand was not delivered: team projects absorbed the class time it needed, leaving only an optional reading
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2026
recheck_by 2029
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-11
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