AtomicReps30″After their coding agent finishes, the student answers a question about that code from memory. What they retrieve, they keep.
the reminders list shows other users' reminders after the first request. fix
⏺ Read(app/reminders.py)
⎿ Read 61 lines
⏺ Grep(pattern: "reminders=", path: app)
⎿ 2 matches
⏺ Update(app/reminders.py)
⎿ Updated 1 file, +3 -1
⏺ Done. add_reminder() no longer shares one default list between calls.
Atomic Reps · Python
Rep 01reminders=None. What did the old signature do the second time it was called without a list?def add_reminder(text, reminders=[]):
reminders.append(text)
return remindersFrom memory. Reply with a letter.
Your student's terminal, week six. Pick a letter.
Students will ship with an agent. The department already knows it. What happens between the lab and the hall exam has been measured.
After the task, roughly 50 against 67, at the same speed. Fifty-two developers whose coding AI assisted, pre-registered trial.
Reaching a working solution with AI and, in the authors' words, “an illusion of competence”. In the same lab's pre-AI study, 11 of 31 could not finish, and every one of them knew it.
In 2025. The main response was more invigilated hall exams: the one unassisted signal a department has, and it arrives at the end of the term.
“GenAI is not cognitive offloading. It’s outsourcing.”
Which concepts the class missed this week, with the question beside each one, so the next lecture starts from what the class got wrong rather than what the slides assumed.
The concepts this class missed most, and the one page that answers them. 38 of 41 answered, 3 paused, no names on this screen.
Ranked by how many of the 38 answers got it wrong.
What did reminders=[] do the second time the function ran?
A default is built once, when def runs, and it belongs to the function. Every later call without a list appends to that same one.
After b = a and b.append(4), what does a hold?
b = a binds a second name to the same list. a[:] builds a new one.
Each one prints with its reason and its source. Made for Programming 1, week 6.
Each one is fixed before it is served. A class of forty meets the same question the same way, and you can read the week's reps before your class does.
The questions are about the code the student just shipped: the default argument they left mutable, the list they aliased, the exception they swallowed. A few seconds with their own work, each time.
Fixed rules choose each next question: the week's topics, the level band, nothing seen recently. No model writes a question, explains an answer or grades a student. What you read on the class screen is arithmetic over answers.
Questions written against your course plan, in your words, reviewed by people and folded into the corpus. One fee, one conversation. Write to us.
Being asked to recall beats reading it again, and the gap opens with time. Retrieval strengthens what is retrieved, which is why the questions are about the code the student just shipped.
Recalled one week later · equal time on task
Five minutes after studying, the rereaders were ahead. The gap opens with delay, which is the one that matters by the exam. Lab study, prose passages.
For the material that brief low-stakes questions had covered, 94% against 81%.
48,478 students, pooled effect g = 0.499, and five publication-bias checks left it near-clean.
“I’m all about adding friction to force reflection.”
Every number links to the page that grades it. The full reading is on the retrieval practice page and the cognitive debt page.
Built to sit inside a department's year, its exam calendar and its procurement rules. Nothing is asked before it has been taught.
A twelve-week term as the console plans it. Example plan; the marked weeks are the product's.
One class or one department, one year at a time, sized to stay under the direct-award limit. No auto-renew for public buyers.
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A paid pilot that converts to the annual agreement on a named date unless you cancel in writing. You have the class screen from the first rep.
Your students keep the agent. You get the week the class actually had.
AtomicReps30″Your students keep the agent. You get the week the class actually had, and a pilot that converts to the annual agreement on a named date unless you cancel in writing.
One class, one term, fixed price.