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MIT Missing Semester 2026

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91 points vismit2000 | 4 comments | 15 Dec 25 12:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.754s | source
1. russfink ◴[15 Dec 25 15:55 UTC] No.46276113[source]▶
Conspicuously missing is a direct mention of AI tools. Is MIT, like others, side-stepping the use of AI by students to (help them) complete homework assignments and projects?
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2. elephanlemon ◴[15 Dec 25 15:57 UTC] No.46276155[source]▶
If you click through the lectures they are mentioned in several of them.
3. Reubachi ◴[15 Dec 25 17:07 UTC] No.46277184[source]▶
A question. If you think AI use by students to "bypass homework" is anything remotely approaching a problem, then I must ask you how you felt/feel about:

- University being cost prohibitive to 90 percent of all humans as financial driven institutions, not performance.

- Before AI, 20 + years of google data indexing/searches fueling academia

- study groups before that allowing group completion (or, cheating, in your view)

- The textbook that costs 500 dollars, or the textbook software from pearson that costs 500, that has the homework answers.

I think it's a silly posit that students using AI is...anything to even think about. I use it at my fortune 500 job every day, and have learned about my field's practical day-to-day from it than any textbook, homework assignment, practical etc.

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4. ghaff ◴[15 Dec 25 17:26 UTC] No.46277465[source]▶
>study groups before that allowing group completion (or, cheating, in your view)

Totally dependent on school/department/professor policy.

Some are very strict. Others allow working together on assignments. (And then there are specific group projects.)