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Using AI to Think Better (Not Just Faster)

Stop outsourcing your thinking - learn to use AI as a sparring partner that makes you think better, not just faster, through disciplined questioning.

Most people still treat AI like a turbocharged Google. You give it a question. It gives you an answer. Maybe it’s right. Maybe it’s helpful. Maybe it saves you a few minutes. But … »
September 5, 2024
socratic-prompting  critical-thinking  ai-collaboration  cognitive-patterns  thinking-frameworks  genai 

When Following the Recipe Fails: Rethinking Waterfall

Understand waterfall's place in software history—discover when sequential development works, why it often fails, and how its lessons inform modern iterative approaches to complex projects

In the third lecture of the Software Engineering course at Universidade Potiguar (UnP), we dove into defined process approaches — with a focus on the well-known waterfall model. But more than … »
March 10, 2010
Software Engineering  Waterfall Model  Defined Process  BDUF  UnP  Teaching  Critical Thinking  software-engineering-series