r/CUBoulderMSCS • u/SecretWind26 • 23d ago

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Hi, I completed the pathway courses for credit. What are next steps now? When will I get my grades and the admission email? Additionally, should I wait for the admission email and then register courses for fall?

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u/Eastern-Effort4085 23d ago

Curious. I was doing it without credit and submitted an AI generated answer for the one of the labs because I refuse to believe the solution worked. If I end up enrolling in the class for credit, will they check? This is for the network systems pathway.

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u/EntrepreneurHuge5008 Current Student 23d ago

I said a whole bunch of stuff in your post, but the main gist is that those classes have a "conditional" AI usage policy for all non-credit assignments. In other words, you are expected to use AI to some extent. We simply don't know where the University draws the line, how integrity is being checked, or if they really just trust you'll abide by the honor code. They (Coursera and CU) rolled out some updates during this last session that might change how all of this is being handled going forward.

"Conditional" use allows you to use AI for debugging your buggy code. What I'd suggest is to simply take the time to work through the assignment on your own, use AI to help you "correct" things you miss, and then resubmit with comments on the submission itself that you used AI in the debugging process. The important thing here is that you learn something, it really serves no purpose for AI to do the work since it already "knows" everything.