IBL News | New York
Anthropic’s Claude.ai chatbot introduced a Learning style this week, making it available to everyone.
When users turn the Learning style feature on, the Claude.ai chatbot employs a Socratic approach, guiding students through questions instead of providing them with straight answers.
The experience here is similar to the one Anthropic offers with Claude for Education.
OpenAI features a similar solution, called Study Mode, and Google does so with the Guided Learning functionality.
In addition, Anthropic is offering on Claude Code an Explanatory mode, which generates summaries as it works, allowing the user a chance to better understand what it’s doing.
Drew Bent, education lead at Anthropic, explained, “Learning mode is designed to help all of those audiences not just complete tasks, but also help them grow and learn in the process and better understand their code base.”
In practice, a “really good engineering manager” won’t necessarily write most of the code on a project, but he will develop a keen eye for how everything fits together and what sections of code might need some more work.