@maxsnew I think LLMs have just exacerbated the preexisting contradiction between university as a place for education and university as a system for professional certification.

goodhart's law tells us that using grades for more than just feedback will inevitably distort behavior.

Engaging with a course in order to maximize learning and engaging with a course to maximize your grade have always been imperfectly aligned, LLMs have just served as wedge to widen that misalignment.