AI Can Write Your CS Assignment. But Can You?

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There's a moment most CS students have had by now. You paste an assignment prompt into an AI tool and get back forty lines of clean, commented code. It runs, and the output looks right.

Then you try to explain line 23 to yourself and realize you can't.

That gap between "the code runs" and "I understand what this code does" is what this piece is about. In professional work it matters less than people admit. If a function passes review and the tests, nobody asks whether you could have written it from memory.

Coursework is different. The code isn't the product. Your understanding is, and the code is the evidence your marker uses to judge it. A working program you can't reason about is weak evidence, and it falls apart the moment someone asks a follow-up question in a lab, a viva, or an exam hall where the tool...

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