I’m on the middle of my CS Degree, and seems that every assignment I need to use a LLM, or is because short deadlines or the people in your group use LLM and without critical thinking of it. Some teachers seems to be fine with that, however my experience is that we make complex essays and complex class diagrams, a lot of code, however no one seems to understand or learn form what they are making and wend defending their work only can do it by reading a resume the LLM made, that make me hopeless and unmotivated. I what is yours experience and opinions on this matter?

P.S. Sorry for any grammar error with English, is not my main language. About AI I am not fully against AI. The Local LLM installed on my machine is helpful for a few things, but the amount that we are using on CS seems too much.

  • zlatiah
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    1 hour ago

    I have only seen this matter from the other perspective, am scientist, not technically a CS person but I do programming/data analytics for work. I saw…

    • A colleague of mine, who teaches a statistics course, mentioned that literally every student of his uses LLMs aggressively for homework assignments. Worse, a lot of his students would just plug the assignment into an LLM, and if he quizzes/asks them for reason, they don’t know why 💀

    • It gets worse. So I have asked ChatGPT to make a powerpoint template once, but didn’t like it so I didn’t ever ask it again. However, after that exercise, I started to notice the exact template that Chat gave me for the slides to appear… in every scientific meeting I go to… among my coworkers slides… at startup/tech events… everywhere

    • It gets even worse. Based on what me and my colleagues observe, my supervisor straight-up prefers slides and presentations with that distinct AI-generated style. The workloads we are given also basically more-or-less expects us to heavily use some type of agentic workflow. When I’m searching for jobs, a lot of data engineer/software job openings directly mention that they either want someone experienced in agentic/vibe coding, or want ppl who are not morally against AI

    So yeah we are in strange times. I don’t know what schools/unis are supposed to do… probably give them long enough time and they can come up with a solution, similar to how high-schools treat graphics calculators. At least my hopium says that, from a learning/job training perspective, someone who is ok with agentic coding but not blinded by it probably has pretty good job prospects so