CS/CE undergrad here who entered university right when ChatGPT hit. Things are bad at my large state school. People who spent the past two years offloading the

CS/CE undergrad here who entered university right when ChatGPT hit. Things are bad at my large state school. People who spent the past two years offloading their entry-level work onto LLMs are now taking 400-level systems programming courses and running face-first into a capability wall. I try my best to help, but there's only so much I can do when basic concepts like structs and pointer manipulation get blank stares. > "Oh, the foo field in that struct should be signed instead of unsigned." < "Struct?" > "Yeah, the type definition of Bar? It's right there." < "Man, I had ChatGPT write this code." > "..."