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pcftoday at 3:43 PM1 replyview on HN

He said: "LLM is going to change schools and universities a lot"

You said: "No it won't. It really, really wont."

With the explosive development of LLMs and their abilities, it seems your point of view is probably the hopeful one while the other poster has the realistic one.

It seems that you simply can't say anything about what LLMs will not be able to do. Especially when you try to use current "AI slop" as your main reason, which is being more and more eradicated.


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traceroute66today at 3:55 PM

> "AI slop" as your main reason, which is being more and more eradicated.

The slop is the hard truth.

As I made perfectly clear in my original post. My university professor friends get handed AI slop by their students each and every day.

There is no "eradication of slop" happening. If anything, it is getting worse. Trust me, my friends see the output from all the latest algorithms on their desk.

The students think they are being very clever, the students think the magical LLM is the best thing since sliced bread.

All the professor sees is a wall of slop on their desk and a student that is not learning how to reason and think with their own damn brain.

And when the professors tries politely and patiently to challenge them and test their understanding as you would expect in a university environment, the snowflake students just whine and complain because they know they've been caught out drinking the LLM kool-aid again for the 100th time this week.

Hence the student is wasting their time and money at university, and the professor is wasting their time trying to teach someone who is clearly not interested in learning because they think they can get the answer in 5 seconds from an LLM chatbot.

My professor friends chose the career they did because they enjoy the challenge of helping students along the way through their courses and watching them develop.

They are no longer seeing that same development in their students. And instead of devoting time to helping students, they are wasting time thinking up over-engineered fiendishly-complicated lab-tasks and tests that the students cannot cheat using LLM.

It is honestly a lose-lose situation for everybody.

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