People have been able to cheat their way through a STEM degree for decades, this is a known major problem, and only with the advent of AI has this even been noticed by the humanities, who have decided to melt down and reinvent the wheel instead of just asking their peers how they cope with it.
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
May 7, 2025 15:45The majority of CS graduates cannot write or maintain code at all. This is not an AI issue, it’s been true for decades, that’s why all the tech companies needed to develop interview processes to filter these people out because the degree is not a reliable signal of skill or competence.
Agree but you still had in-person exams you couldn’t use wolfram alpha on
Right. “In person exams” are the trivial solution here, why is everybody hand wringing about The Death Of The University?
the humanities departments at STEM-heavy schools have been vocally disgusted with their administrations allowing students to cheat or coast their way to engineering degrees bc it allows them to brag about high graduation rates etc for decades
and given that you admit people have been and are now cheating their way to STEM degrees for decades, not sure why humanities would turn to their STEM colleagues on how to prevent that
The underlying problem is that outsourcing the hiring process to universities inadvertently selects against skilled individuals who didn't have the background to enrol in arbitrary target universities.
"Inadvertently"
