It sounds like copilot could ultimately be just another progression in the definition of normal or baseline, like using calculators in math classes. Whatever t

It sounds like copilot could ultimately be just another progression in the definition of normal or baseline, like using calculators in math classes. Whatever the current state of the art and tools of the trade are, that's what they are, and probably the bulk of courses will just adapt to reflect that state of reality and incorporate that into the courses. Outside of maybe some specialist courses that may still exist but most students wouldn't need to take, it would just be expected that most students use the current tools to accomplish the tasks. Even going so far as to provide free student access to any paid tools to avoid giving the rich kids an unfair advantage. The nature of posed problems, and their teaching purpose (why they are posed and what you get out of them) would just change from what they are now. Whatever the "calculator" can do, simply becomes uninteresting and not required for most people to worry about. My first couple years of school I was taking mechanical engineering, and it was right during a transition where we were doing both manual and cad drafting. There is a lot of geometry tricks both physical drawing and math required to generate accurate views of any shaped objects intersecting with any other shaped objects, viewed from any angle, sliced at any depth. We spent a lot of time and effort on that. That is all done by magic now inside the cad engine. Someone still needs to know it, but 99% of people whos job is to design or otherwise manipulate models of objects do not need to know it. I, who did learn that stuff, don't think an engineer who didn't have to know how to generate an accurate view with nothing but a pencil and a calculator is a less capable less insightful less quality engineer. If anything they may be better for not having to spend as much of their intellect on mechanics & implementation vs ideas. The knowledge & skills I'm talking about don't contribute to their understanding of the real job, they aren't foundations that the later stages build on. It's just labor of no value at all except to the cad engine designer. It had a value in the past because it was a form of literacy. It was simply the only way to document the ideas you were fabricating. Perhaps copilot is like that. I don't know and I'm not saying it is, but it could be.