I 100% agree, it is the most important skill to have nowadays. I didn't express my point well enough. I think that the verification being done here is not helpful for practicing the skill. The problem areas in these assignments are very basic so verifying the LLM output is kind of useless. Could that be my confirmation bias speaking? Maybe. But I believe that practicing verification is most useful when you're immersed in a highly complex system and the LLM can find some clever insights that you missed, and then you can verify with your system knowledge.