Comment by lawn

> With a class writing exercise like the author describes, of course the students are going to use an LLM, they would be stupid not to if their classmates are using it.

Its only stupid if you try to optimize for the wrong things (finishing quickly, just getting a pass).

I'd say it's very smart if you don't rely on LLMs, copy the homework from someone else, or similar; because you're optimizing for learning, which will help you more than the various shortcuts.