can the kids still learn okay?
my company's had a new cohort of interns recently (although its summer so most would I'd expect) and more than ever before I'm unsure how kids are really supposed to develop and learn now. we're not restricting them from AI usage (I have no idea why) and so I'm starting to see claude co authored PRs from 1 week tenure interns - what possible signal are we getting from them? How are they possibly learning anything?
I went to my sisters graduation recently as well, where she expressed that she felt she was falling behind the curve slightly for not using AI (she is quite anti llm usage at all, good for her). However, the result that she feels instead now is that since everyone else was using it on assignments, she ends up 'lower' on the curve. A bit of a prisoner's dilemma, so to speak.
I can't imagine this is getting any better anywhere else either. LLMs are far too accessible, and educational institutions and governments were never the fastest changing systems to begin with. I feel for them slightly; attentions spans bombarded by short form content, and now being practically spoonfed anything they want information wise, will the average student actually want to learn?