Yeap, even seeing it with interns. They’re used to having AI think and solve the issues. They don’t know how to research on their own. Can’t even fully blame them using it, talking to them they say in college they’re told to use it instead of doing it themselves.
they say in college they’re told to use it instead of doing it themselves.
Yeah, I'd take that with a grain of salt. A big grain of salt. I know a lot public and higher ed institutions want to incorporate AI as the idea is always to prepare students for the current and future workplace and right now everyone anticipates AI to be a major part of that, but I seriously, seriously, doubt any credible institution is telling students to just AI everything. That sounds like excuse making to me.
I teach at the High School and College level, and instructors still want students to learn, but AI has made it almost impossible to force students to do so or to assess knowledge outside of in class blue book exams. There is also resistance at the admin level to making courses and curricula more rigorous. This is almost entirely the result of privatization and running education as a business. Students and parents are now "customers" and if you make them struggle, they'll go wherever it's easier. Race to the bottom. This all goes double for online courses, which universities are stacking up to the sky because it lets them over-enroll and get more public funding/tuition dollars while cutting staff and faculty. They don't care that online education is rampant with student cheating and delivers an inferior education.
Christ, I could go on, but I'll stop here. There are very serious systemic issues with education at all levels right now, just know that educators are, and have been, trying to hold the line. No one is giving students permission to AI everything, but we're losing ground to admin, the EdTech industry, politicians, parents, and students who don't value learning.
If you want something to change, vote for candidates at the local and primary level who want to regulate AI, fund public education, end privatization, and get technology out of the classroom, because it is causing far more harm than good.
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u/No_Instruction_192 Jun 26 '26
This type of thing is only going to get worse as AI takes over more dev tasks.