Comment by colonial

Worse, some professors encourage this!

I had a data structures professor (over a year ago now) that actively encouraged a class of sophomores - most of whom were fresh out of "intro to Java" - to have Copilot (GPT-4 at the time I believe) help churn out assignment code on the university's dime.

Being somewhat ahead and an avowed LLM hater, I mostly forgot about this and plowed through the assignments unassisted... until the first midterm (on paper, in person) hit. The mean was something like a 40.

I eventually spoke to some classmates that weren't in my immediate group, and predictably heard several variations on "I let Copilot become a crutch."

Ugh. Fortunately there was ample opportunity to turn grades around, but I'm sure some people are still feeling that bad advice in their GPAs.