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technoabsurdist ◴[] No.43634469[source]
I'm an undergrad at a T10 college. Walking through our library, I often notice about 30% of students have ChatGPT or Claude open on their screens.

In my circle, I can't name a single person who doesn't heavily use these tools for assignments.

What's fascinating, though, is that the most cracked CS students I know deliberately avoid using these tools for programming work. They understand the value in the struggle of solving technical problems themselves. Another interesting effect: many of these same students admit they now have more time for programming and learning they “care about” because they've automated their humanities, social sciences, and other major requirements using LLMs. They don't care enough about those non-major courses to worry about the learning they're sacrificing.

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1. umanwizard ◴[] No.43641334[source]
Another obvious downside of the idiosyncratically American system that forces university students to take irrelevant classes to make up for the total lack of rigorous academic high school education.