COMP Department, PolyU organized a seminar named “Nurturing
Workplace-Ready Prof in the age of AI” on 21st May 2026. Dr. Richard
LUI (Senior Lecturer) shared his experience on his generative AI-powered
intelligent tutoring system entitled “GPTutor” and discussed the recent trends
in agentic coding. Many colleagues joined the seminar and we took a group photo
for memory.
Dr. Walter Fung, Dr. Raymond Pang and I arrived and took
a photo before the seminar start.
In the beginning, Dr. Richard Lui introduced GPTutor as a
GenAI Powered Learning Platform. This project started in November 2023. It can summarize
the learning material and made conversation for student questions.
Then he demonstrated the course “General and Ocular
Pharmacology 2” for virtual patient simulation. It included user interface,
conversation and grading, and create simulation chatbots. And then he showed positive
students’ comments.
In the second part, Dr. Richard Lui discussed software
engineering in the age of AI. Because of Vibe Coding, who doesn’t know how to
code won dozens of hackathons in San Francisco! AI-assisted coding tools enable
developers to be far more productive.
After that he showed the different between Traditional
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agentic SDLC.
He also discussed the reduction of SDLC from weeks to
hours. The Tools employed from ChatGPT (2022) to Copilot (2023-2025) and then
to now Autonomous Agent. Harness Engineering was mentioned that it governs how
the whole agent system operates: tools, guardrails, feedback loops, observability,
versioning, and error recovery.
Finally, he proposed to redesign assessment in the age of
AI from old rules to new rules that demonstrates human value AI cannot easily
replicate such as problem framing, critical evaluation, creativity, etc.
Lastly, he discussed junior developer using AI for coding
that caused many problems. He also quoted Stanford University study that AI can
increase developer productivity for low complexity greenfield projects but gains
very limited in high complexity brownfield projects. That’s why AI impacted
entry level jobs. Since AI coding generation is easy, the bottleneck will be
human review capacity! In Q&A session, we discussed the essential skills of
students in the AI era especially soft skill such as communication.
After the seminar, I had lunch with Dr. YC Chau. He had
just completed the approval process for the HKTech 300 funding in CityU.
Reference:
COMP, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/
20260310:
FCMS Award Ceremony for Outstanding Faculty Members and Alumni 2025 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/03/fcms-award-ceremony-for-outstanding.html
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