Overview

This is a chance to step back and synthesize what we've learned and discovered so far (for both students and the instructors). You have two writing-based tasks and a question to answer for this week.

Assignment Tasks

Task 1: Write a memo to a Brown CS peer who is just starting to work with agent-based programming after having had a couple of CS courses. Describe what Claude does and doesn't do well, and any helpful practices that you've started to adopt in using agents yourself. At most 2 pages suffice (memos are meant to be crisp summaries, not papers).

We're looking for your comments to have depth. For example, instead of just "it's bad at testing", explain what specific aspects of testing it does and doesn't do well. Include any aspects of the course that have seemed relevant to you so far (we just used tested as an example here).

Your work should go into a Google Doc that Kathi, Shriram, and Michael can all read. Easiest would be for you to make a new research journal document (which has the sharing set up), but then write free-form without using any of the entry templates.

Submit your document URL to this form.

Task 2: Fill out this single-question form to indicate whether we can share your anonymous journal entries with a classmate who is helping with the research aspect of the course.

Task 3: Please give us anonymous feedback on the course so far through this anonymous feedback form. We'll be reading these carefully for ideas going forward. Please be honest as to what's working and what needs improvement.