Comment by nathan_compton

The goal isn't work - its simply that I acknowledge that AI can perform a lot of labor that students previously had to spend a lot of time on. Because they have more time, my ambitions for what they can accomplish are higher.

I teach data science, which involves a lot of relatively unimportant glueing together of libraries. Yes, I want the students to know how to program, but the key skills are actually coming to grips with data, applying methods correctly, etc. The AI can make writing out the actual code substantially more efficient for them and I expect them to use that saved time to understand higher level skills.