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 I were in school now and told to use an LLM, I’d feel cheated and be infuriated. People go to school and get a degree in literature or history of art, and they get hired on as audit analysts or marketing or whatever. They study for the sake of studying. Even if the end state of computer science degree is using LLM for work, learning the underlying principles is the entire point of going to school for it.
I do think learning how to use MCP and skills and prompts properly is really useful (it’s the difference between 30 pages of bullshit and a 3 page pinpoint report) But it’s a drop in the bucket.