alt Hacker NewsIt's not just a piece of paper - it's a piece of paper that shows you can complete a 4-year course of study in a particular field. I'm not sure how useful a piece of paper that says you spent 4 years typing prompts into a LLM could be without a huge change in how education works.
I'm not sure how you think those two things are different. Right now, we have people graduating a 4 year course of study in a particular field and spending a large part of that 4 years using LLMs to do a lot of the work.