IITM Paradox · Workshop · DOMS Room 101
Let AI Take Your Exams

Let AI Take
Your Exams

A two-hour workshop where the professor who designs the exams taught a hundred students to beat his own questions — because the only thing worth learning is what AI still can't do.

By Anand, LLM Psychologist at Straive · IITM BS · DOMS Room 101, IIT Madras
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The Narrative
The Story
The full narrative of the workshop — the copy-paste poll, the live Codex run, hallucination control, the calibration game, and why a teacher would teach you to cheat. Woven with quotes, data, and the post-workshop survey of 1,175 responses.
Read the story
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The Live Experiment
How Codex Took the Exam
A companion story on how Codex solved the test exam in the background from a two-word prompt — and what the session logs reveal about students' questions and hesitations about handing problems to AI coding agents.
See the run
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The Playbook
Technique Atlas
A collection of exam-taking techniques Anand originally planned to drive the talk with but never got to — mapped by impact and effort. Still a useful, interactive field guide for students working with AI.
Explore techniques
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Behind the Scenes
How It Was Prepared
How Anand ideated and prepared for this talk — the agenda, the experiments he considered, and the thinking that shaped the session. Rendered here, with a link to the original ChatGPT conversation.
Open the prep notes