[mcbuilder]

How many students rely on AI, is that number really going up?

My son is 14 and knows about AI (I'm a researcher in the space, so I've been mentioning advances in it for years). He seems to code with some of his peers, and it seems like normal to me (python scripts, HTML, js type stuff written the old fasioned way [written by hand or copy pasting into a notebook.exe equivalent :P]). I try to be super honest with him, and I tell him AI is incredible, but we also joke about it and I explain the incredible drawbacks of vibe coding, especially while learning.

I wonder overall though how LLMs are going to effect CS education. Will students avoid using the tools, or will they be accepted? CS homework projects were always easier to cheat on vs say fine art, since of the ease one can copy and paste code, but AI tools makes trivial work of many homework exercises that would in theory be harder to implicate someone.

[recursivedoubts]

Yes, it is going up. In my classes the problem is that AI is just there in VSCode or IntelliJ, and they start using it almost by accident. That is what I want to avoid.