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.
If LLMs would have been a thing in my time, I probably wouldn’t have failed Math and gotten an IT degree instead. But they weren’t, so I changed my field of study, which I am very happy about in hindsight. But it is kind of scary, isn’t it? I have this one guy in the team who seems to be dependent on LLMs, it’s like talking to a robot.
You probably wouldn’t have failed Math, but you probably wouldn’t have learned it either!
Yes, of course not. I also find it very wrong to use LLMs in order to obtain a degree. But growing up is hard and I had a lot of stuff I my mind during my 20s, not sure I could have resisted. Especially in a climate like OP describes it. I am glad I have been teached critical thinking and auto didactic learning, but I worry for the upcoming generation.