Lots of school infrastructure is decades old. I bet lots of students can better manage the IT than the IT department. The only issue is security and privacy. Not sure if there is a balanced solution for self-governance.
I've heard of people making reminder bots for schools that give you a short time slot to accept getting off a waitlist before it moves to the next person
My understanding is you're allowed to automate the discovery of classes as much as you want. but as soon as you try to automate signing up for them you're gonna get in trouble.
I have to say that https://student.mit.edu/catalog/index.cgi looks like a great site! It is all public, and when you open a category (a static site), all the information appears all at once and you can Ctrl-F for keywords. It might not solve that "unknown unknown" problem that the author mentions, but it is certainly much preferable to the solution that our university used (https://www.his.de/hisinone; one example: all courses are displayed in a tree and if you click to unfold a node, the server generates verbose HTML and sends it to the client. This takes at least 10 seconds on good days).
I enjoyed reading this. Among the points discussed, the one about structures that can be read by machines (machine-readable formats) seems to hold important implications for the future of data structures and representation.
While there are many attempts being made today, at the current pace of change I can imagine us returning to a clean, well-structured, text-based origin. As for UI representation, I believe AI will likely handle that on its own.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 35.2 ms ] threadI also wrote a short piece reflecting on vibe coding this app and musing on the broader implication of building non-scalable software. https://stackdiver.com/posts/non-scalable-software/
And, AWESOME WORK. This is truly "making things better", which is my favorite What Does An Engineer Do saying.
While there are many attempts being made today, at the current pace of change I can imagine us returning to a clean, well-structured, text-based origin. As for UI representation, I believe AI will likely handle that on its own.
it’s almost funny how similar the scraping code ends up looking for these kinds of things