Your AI Tutor May Be Helping You Learn Less
It's 2 a.m. The same error traceback stares back at you for the third hour. Twenty browser tabs deep into documentation, Stack Overflow, and half-remembered lecture notes, you open yet another tab, this one a chat interface. You paste the stack trace, and within seconds a patient voice starts unraveling the problem, not by giving you the answer, but by asking questions that nudge your own brain toward the misbehaving line.
That scene is no longer futuristic. Large language models have turned the solitary act of studying into something closer to a dialogue. A 2026 surveyof more than 8,000 students across four Australian universities found that over 80% had used generative AI for study-related tasks, with nearly half using it regularly. For engineers and CS students specifically, real usage is likely higher still: these are people who already live in terminal windows and know exactly what to ask of...
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