I’m thrilled to be a co-leader of Working Group 4 at ITiCSE 2023 this year: Transformed by Transformers: Navigating the AI Coding Revolution for CS Education.

Really looking forward to how this develops! Here’s a screenshot of the Brady Bunch:

We have been meeting weekly for over a month and amazingly, despite the timezone differences spanning several continents from North America to Australasia, we have 14-16 (of 16) on the call every week – amazing.

Abstract:
The recent advent of highly accurate and scalable large language models (LLMs) has taken the world by storm. From art to essays to computer code, LLMs are producing novel content that until recently was thought only humans could produce. Recent work in computing education has sought to understand the capabilities of LLMs for solving tasks such as writing code, explaining code, creating novel coding assignments, interpreting programming error messages, and more. However, these technologies continue to evolve at an astonishing rate leaving educators little time to adapt. This working group seeks to document the state-of-the-art for code generation LLMs, detail current opportunities and challenges related to their use, and present actionable approaches to integrating them into computing curricula.