--- title: Teaching Haskell in the Age of LLMs, Part 1: Ban or Embrace? description: A Haskell educator discusses how LLMs now solve standard functional programming exercises (like implementing Peano arithmetic or writing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/teaching-haskell-in-the-age-of-llms-part-1-ban-or-embrace--dnekxabid twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Teaching Haskell in the Age of LLMs, Part 1: Ban or Embrace? | daily.dev og:description: A Haskell educator discusses how LLMs now solve standard functional programming exercises (like implementing Peano arithmetic or writing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/teaching-haskell-in-the-age-of-llms-part-1-ban-or-embrace--dnekxabid og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dneKXAbid.png og:image:alt: Teaching Haskell in the Age of LLMs, Part 1: Ban or Embrace? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Teaching Haskell in the Age of LLMs, Part 1: Ban or Embrace? **[Serokell](https://daily.dev/sources/serokell)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Haskell educator discusses how LLMs now solve standard functional programming exercises (like implementing Peano arithmetic or writing Functor/Applicative/Monad instances by hand) that used to force students to learn by struggling. The piece weighs banning LLM use in coursework against embracing it, noting both approaches have real drawbacks: banning doesn't match the workplace reality and is hard to enforce, while embracing means courses must be redesigned since a good submission no longer proves understanding. The author announces a new functional programming course built around the embrace approach, with course structure and grading details to follow in a subsequent post. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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