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Diraven

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1. My wife teaches college computer science
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 02:57 PM
Dec 26

So many of her students are using generative AI to do all their coding projects. And it's easy to catch because the code is full of unnecessary fluff that does nothing and very unoptimized code that barely completes its intended function. When she asks the students to explain how it works they have no idea. Also when they finally get to midterm and final exams they fail spectacularly because they learned almost nothing. She had to implement a policy that if students fail both the midterm and final then they automatically fail the class even if they get 100% on their homework. Last semester almost half the students failed her class like that.

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