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.

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[–] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

The main problem is how most education isn't meant to actually teach you, just to grind you through a conveyor belt and, if you don't fail, reward you with a diploma. It really fucking sucks and, in that regard, most places haven't changed in the past 40 years.

Now, regarding LLMs, try to do stuff yourself whenever possible. As humans, we love cutting corners (I certainly did that during my uni time, 13y ago). The sheer volume of assignments isn't helping, so at least try to pick one or two that are more interesting, or that you believe to be more important for you to actually know, and do them without LLM aid.

Remember, every skill - programming, understanding what the fuck the assignment wants you to do, math - works like muscles: you HAVE to use it in order to get good. Gotta think like an athlete, train (study) every day. It is exhausting, it makes you want to do anything other than that, but you have to power thru if you don't want to use LLM as a crutch for the rest of your life

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    thats why alot of uni only push people through the system as fast as possible, they only see freshman as the cash cow, so they give them every priority they can, but very little resources goes to things like "labs, independant experience from coursework" thats the feeling alot student in my local state uni felt.(reason why so may of them either want to transfer or transferred to a better university on reviews sites and then they saw thier friends struggling the old university to find jobs)

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