Amy J. Ko blog
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- Amy J. Ko blog
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- UW Information School professor (HCI, CS education) who writes Bits and Behavior on Medium, mostly LLM-skeptical takes on programming and learning
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- blog, person, llm-skepticism
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- 2026-07-18
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- 2026-07-18
Amy J. Ko is a professor at the University of Washington Information School, working in human-computer interaction and computer science education. She writes the Bits and Behavior publication on Medium (amyjko.medium.com), and maintains several open-source projects in her spare time — Wordplay, Adminima, Bookish.press, and Reciprocal.Reviews.
Her recent writing on LLMs is skeptical and grounded in her teaching and research rather than in industry adoption. Recurring themes: LLMs promote learning avoidance, the premise of modeling human behavior with data denies people's non-digital emotional reality, and generative AI's costs land on communities its boosters don't count. She writes from a stated political-economy position, so her pieces read differently from the engineering-skeptics in the anti-llm-discourse cluster even when the craft observations overlap.
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- know-thine-enemy — July 2026: a three-month experiment using Claude Code as a skeptic; it worked and cost her focus, joy, money, and values; lands on a harm-reduction stance