What’s my initial take on AI for Higher Ed?

Kudos to AI… it really is amazing. I can see AI helping with a lot of the routine Help Desk, coding and config issues and making web development faster but you will need highly skilled people to oversee it, orient it and know where it’s going wrong. AI is prone to “hallucinations” (or should I say confabulation) and making up solutions that simply don’t work but I am impressed by how it can help me deliver projects a lot faster when used with Cursor AI or GitHub Copilot. I need to be very careful and accurate how I prompt AI like Claude Sonnet etc… AI really acts as more of an assistant than anything else because it can come back with some crazy suggestions sometimes. I can also see how it will cost a lot of developer jobs. Experienced developers will be able to achieve the output of 5+ junior/mid web developers, especially for the more routine stuff. Employers will need to be shrewd in evaluating the AI hype otherwise they will face major skills gap issues. A lot of the hype is around the potential of what AI could deliver as opposed to what it can. Tread carefully with major budgeting decisions as you may end up with tech that can’t deliver your projects. Exciting times and new frontiers ahead…