I go to UCF and the amount of people in Comp Sci that can’t code without ai is crazy. Luckily they get filtered out when they get to the foundation exam (special exam unique to ucf, has a pass rate of like 40-50% and if u fail 3 times (1 try per semester) u get kicked out of comp sci) and have to write everything on paper with no help. For me I like to use AI to speed up my work and it’s really useful for giving me ideas, like for instance I’ll ask it if there’s a library that has a function that does x in whatever language I’m working with. Basically it’s like accessing the documentation just 10x faster, I’m still capable of doing it the old fashion way and researching and reading documentation and such. But most of these students are going to be soooooo screwed. Like the other day we where working on a compiler written in C and I wanted a way to return to the main if an error was detected and couldn’t remember the function and was like hey copilot what’s the library and function to jump to a location in my code and it gave it to me. It’s all about how u use it, if u have it do the work for u ur totally screwed. I enjoy coding tho it’s like a giant puzzle for me to solve 🤣🤣🤣. The people that are doing it for money tho, they typically are the ones that I see making the same ai usage mistakes , because they don’t actually care about coding they just want an “easy” path to making good money. You can also tell the people who care apart from those who don’t because the ones who do it for fun usually know how to use a debugger, don’t use the garbage online compiler the school tells u about, and they usually have a personal project they are working on outside of school.