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Mitigating "Epistemic Debt" in Generative AI-Scaffolded Novice Programming using Metacognitive Scripts

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S. Sankaranarayanan · 2026 · arXiv preprint

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Requiring novices to explain AI-generated code before merging it cut failures on a later task without AI from 77% to 39%.

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