Since computers became common, it's seemed like an increasing number of people don't know how to, and don't think they should have to, learn skills.

Nah, people have been cheating and faking it forever.

It makes the dumb even dumber. In 10 years we will see the effect of it, just like ipad babies.

I teach collegiate intro programming classes, I can say it definitely seems that way. My office hours will be an absolute ghost town, nobody has any questions for me in class, and then when a project is due about 1/3 of the submissions are AI slop.

I know cheating has always been rampant, but I've never seen it this bad before.

In the U.S., the issue is that our education system is already fundamentally broken and doing a terrible job of teaching kids. Adding LLMs to that is like striking a match in the tinderbox.

at least it took a bit more effort than just a prompt or two.

lucky if your search terms just bring up someone else's work I suppose lol