It's worse than that. The product of students was never the point. The learning process that comes from wrestling work the material, understanding the question, planning a structure, composing sentences and paragraphs...

They're not going to learn that. We will have a generation of illiterates.

March 12, 2026 - 22:06 UTC

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Maybe people will evolve (devolve?) to think in a series of icons.
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The digital equivalent of grunts and gestures? Yes. One can almost picture it.

"Almost..." /s.
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True story. A middle-aged friend of mine sent an email to her new 20-something boss. It was a few paragraphs.

The boss said, "If you're going to use AI to write your emails, you need to remove the dots".

My friend was mystified. She hadn't used AI.

The "Dots" were the punctuation.

Punctuation.
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As troubling as that is, the boss was actually telling on herself. Clearly, she had been cheating in her studies by getting AI to write for her, then deleting the punctuation out to disguise her perfidy.
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