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This is all so new, and caught us completely unprepared that there's no official university-level policies. Most of us are still navigating the waters and seeing what works and what doesn't work anymore.

I have colleagues that are teaching for more than 30 years, few years away from retirement, who suddenly have been confronted with a new way of doing things. Those are the ones that are still insisting on doing practical projects, etc. I've only been doing this for 20 years, and I'm quite lazy (worked previously as software engineer), so I've moved to those practical tests. I guess that there should probably exist a class or workshop to teach these students how to use LLMs effectively, but as I said, this technology and its implications is quite new.

Personally, what I did was to give them the "lecture" in the line of that they do not understand what the machine has generated, that is not the way a true engineer does, try to do some parallel with things like an LLM designing a bridge and civil engineers building that bridge, and a fatal flaw collapsing the all thing, etc.

In other words, we do not have a formal system in place, it's all talking and convincing them. Obviously it's a big enough problem that should deserve more investment in solutions, but we are all overwhelmed by other tasks. Maybe LLM studios should be held responsible for all these "disruptions" and provide solutions to problems they created! :)

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