> htmx ~ The University In The AI Era

Carson Gross, a CS professor at Montana State University and creator of htmx, argues that universities remain relevant in the AI era and may become more valuable due to their unique ability to verify student competence through in-person testing. He shares concrete changes he has made to his courses: reducing homework weight, making assignments more ambitious, switching to in-person handwritten quizzes every three weeks, using AI as a TA via CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md files, moving slides to Markdown, and automating administrative tasks. He also proposes speculative changes including network-isolated computer labs, oral exams, a 'CS+' interdisciplinary minor, and greater university involvement in open source. His core argument is that universities should double down on hands-on coding to fill the gap left by AI-heavy workplaces where junior developers may never write code themselves.