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.
Usually it's not a lack of will but just institutional entrenchment.
Students may volunteer but there's no path that would allow them to fix things.
mmmlinux · 19m ago
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.
ncr100 · 51m ago
Advice: capitalize the S in Courseek, to emphasize the misspelling as intentional.
And, AWESOME WORK. This is truly "making things better", which is my favorite What Does An Engineer Do saying.
daedrdev · 38m ago
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
Students may volunteer but there's no path that would allow them to fix things.
And, AWESOME WORK. This is truly "making things better", which is my favorite What Does An Engineer Do saying.
I 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/