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Quincy Larson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
554 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

Yeah, the Oasis. I think that, yeah, that is certainly important. But at the same time, I think that if you want to create people who are sufficiently intrinsically motivated, then you do want to kind of like pull back a little bit on the gamification. And we used to use gamification a lot more than we do now.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

Yeah, the Oasis. I think that, yeah, that is certainly important. But at the same time, I think that if you want to create people who are sufficiently intrinsically motivated, then you do want to kind of like pull back a little bit on the gamification. And we used to use gamification a lot more than we do now.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

And what we noticed is it was kind of like incentivizing the wrong, it was incentivizing compulsive completion of things, but it was like, it wasn't done in the spirit of learning. It was done out of like a sense of guilt and obligation, almost like I got to keep my street and stuff like that.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

And what we noticed is it was kind of like incentivizing the wrong, it was incentivizing compulsive completion of things, but it was like, it wasn't done in the spirit of learning. It was done out of like a sense of guilt and obligation, almost like I got to keep my street and stuff like that.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

Yeah. And so I think that there are a lot of, uh, there's a lot of danger in leaning too much into games, uh, and learning. but I don't want to sound like an old man yelling at a cloud. Like, no, it's gotta be, you know, books and you gotta be sitting in a lecture listening to the old man, you know, squeaky writing on the chalkboard, you know?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

Yeah. And so I think that there are a lot of, uh, there's a lot of danger in leaning too much into games, uh, and learning. but I don't want to sound like an old man yelling at a cloud. Like, no, it's gotta be, you know, books and you gotta be sitting in a lecture listening to the old man, you know, squeaky writing on the chalkboard, you know?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

I'm not that way at all, but I do think that like, I think a lot of e-sports teams is that's where you draw the line. Well, people swing like in these dramatic directions, like, Oh, we're all doing, you know, AI chatbots now and stuff like that. And then like, I want to kind of be a voice of balance and reason.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

I'm not that way at all, but I do think that like, I think a lot of e-sports teams is that's where you draw the line. Well, people swing like in these dramatic directions, like, Oh, we're all doing, you know, AI chatbots now and stuff like that. And then like, I want to kind of be a voice of balance and reason.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

We'll just have to put you through the paces. And we'll have to move you into the barracks where we keep all the other Rocket League players.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

We'll just have to put you through the paces. And we'll have to move you into the barracks where we keep all the other Rocket League players.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

It'll be in South Korea.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

It'll be in South Korea.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

Yeah, so we think like 50 years out, 60 years out. Like I think like in terms of, you know, what is likely to be accomplished. Okay, so if you go all the way back to the first printing of the Gutenberg Bible, the first mass produced book in history, it was more than like, it was like 600 years ago. It was just with the advent of the printing press.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

Yeah, so we think like 50 years out, 60 years out. Like I think like in terms of, you know, what is likely to be accomplished. Okay, so if you go all the way back to the first printing of the Gutenberg Bible, the first mass produced book in history, it was more than like, it was like 600 years ago. It was just with the advent of the printing press.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

And this book came out and it brought literacy to everyone in the 1450s, 1450s. 600 plus years ago, 670 years ago, and still we have illiteracy. I don't believe that AI is just going to magically change illiteracy. I think that there are a lot of people who just, it's still hard to learn to read. If nobody teaches you how to read, it's very difficult.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

And this book came out and it brought literacy to everyone in the 1450s, 1450s. 600 plus years ago, 670 years ago, and still we have illiteracy. I don't believe that AI is just going to magically change illiteracy. I think that there are a lot of people who just, it's still hard to learn to read. If nobody teaches you how to read, it's very difficult.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

Like I hear all these things of like people who have unschooled their kids and like they haven't necessarily put effort into teaching the kids.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

Like I hear all these things of like people who have unschooled their kids and like they haven't necessarily put effort into teaching the kids.