Grades in university have done absolutely nothing for me. Good grades nor bad grades. What I got out of schooling was quite literally an education – access to p

Grades in university have done absolutely nothing for me. Good grades nor bad grades. What I got out of schooling was quite literally an education – access to perspectives and paradigms, learning methodologies, some expertise in a couple of fields, confidence in working with others. You know... learning. There's not a lot of value in using AI for targeted tasks like a school essay. Nor is there much value in getting a grade for a targeted task like an essay (not only would the grade be high-noise and low-signal, it also has a tiny or non-existent practical effect). I wonder if these AI tools will to some extent highlight the meaningless fluff (crust?) that vestigially hangs around. If our current incarnation of task-oriented AI is really good at some particular thing, and we humans readily hand that thing over to AI without regret/loss, what are the chances that that thing really mattered in the first place? (Note that this is not to hypothesize that all things AI does are non-important.) I personally believe that we have a weak grasp on the things we do that don't matter. We do a lot of things because we have always done them, and some of these have not been adequately questioned in years/decades. So any indication of what's important or not is very helpful. (I'm aware my circumstances are unique – maybe for some grades in school have had a significant influence in their lives – I personally have not witnessed this, in myself or others.)