Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

And if you're that one person out of 100,000 who is not using LLMs to do their homework, you are at a significant disadvantage on the grading curve.


Maybe, but piss on that, who needs good grades? Youll learn a hell of a lot better


My university solves this quite easily.

There is no graded homework, the coursework is there only as a guide and practice for the exams.

So you can absolutely use LLMs to help you with the exercises or to help understand something, however if you blindly get answers you will only be fooling yourself as you won't be able to pass the exams.


That’s how most schooling has already been in a lot of South and East Asia. If you don’t do your homework, you get punished in other ways, but it doesn’t have any impact on the overall grade, the grade solely depends on the final exam.


Currently in university and my experience is that it heavily depends on the module. For a lot your statement's probably accurate, however for others it really isn't. For example we have a microprocessors module which is programming for an rp2040 in c, but also manually setting up interrupt handlers etc in assembly. All of the LLM's are completely useless for it, they tell you that the rp2040 works in ways it just doesn't and are actively unhelpful with the misinformation. The only students who can do well in that module are the ones that understand the material well and go to the datasheet and documentation instead of an LLM.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: