When current and future students are out in the workforce they'll have access to tools like CoPilot and ChatGPT, not to mention plain Stack Overflow cut-n-paste

When current and future students are out in the workforce they'll have access to tools like CoPilot and ChatGPT, not to mention plain Stack Overflow cut-n-paste, so if education is meant to be preparing kids for the workplace, then the logical thing to do is allow/teach them to use these tools. OTOH, they still do need to learn how to program and debug (more important than ever if you're using machine-generated code likely to contain bugs, and with unknown error handling), so it seems colleges also need to make the assignments more complex to point where current crop of tools can only be used to assist - not to nearly write all the code. It'll be interesting to see how these new tools affect hiring standards... Doesn't make much sense to pay someone just to get a tool to write the code, so maybe the bar will be raised there too.