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In higher education, I'd argue our common goal, across all disciplines (we use that word for a reason) is to turn out humans who are less sloppy than they would otherwise be. At present LLMs stand to drive sloppiness upwards, because they are seen as ways to “relieve” humans of the tasks that deliver the real insights—the writing, programming and perhaps even proof through which we discover the ways in which what we previously thought was sloppy. When people don't go through that process of discovery, they don't get the skills to make them less sloppy. To become rigorous, you have to be confronted with your own sloppiness.