Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/technology/kenya-college-essays-ai.html

Its banned. Most won’t let you use it unless its one thing in a while and the ones that do shouldn’t be allowed to be a college anyways.

I understand why, but I also think exposure to AI workflows that are expected at jobs is important as well. Also there is so much AI psychosis or whatever you want to call it that I think skepticism of AI is an important life skill.

Hopefully the future of AI is open source, local, more efficient models, but it’s not going anywhere, so ignorance should be discouraged.

AI workflows… lol ok. throw crap at ai, it outputs random made up garbage, don’t check anything and push it to production.

WHEN it doesn’t work, blame ai… if forced to use AI again, repeat process. continue until the company goes bankrupt from wasting time/money on garbage, or realizes it’s trash and bans the use of it and relies on ACTUAL INTELLIGENCE.

malicious compliance should be used by everyone now. let their garbage destroy themselves.

I think it’s pretty obvious that you haven’t used any AI tools in a while. They have gotten considerably better at not spewing complete nonsense, and at being very convincing to people who don’t know better. We’re well past the obvious days of glue pizza and telling people to eat rocks, and entirely fabricated garbage.

My job is doing a full court push of AI to make sure we “don’t get left behind” by nebulous competitors’ hypothetical productivity gains. So I’ve started picking it up. It’s useful for searching for information using normal language terminology, and on rare occasions can call out edge cases and additional considerations early, rather than when I come to those conclusions after reading 10 different documentation sites and mentally mapping everything out.

I still think the bleeding edge early adopters were/are insane, AGI/ASI isn’t going to coalesce out of the current approaches if ever, and it’s a net negative for humanity. That all said, I see the benefits and use cases more clearly now too.

Unfortunately, not checking anything and pushing to prod now can result in things that work well enough to become relied on before it hits the wall. You end up with a project five layers past the initial slop code (that the initial slopper claims is rock solid and good to go) when the problems start showing up, then you realize that you’ve been building off slop foundation and have to tear everything back down to the frame.

Makes the whole thing worse tbh.

No offense to the people who buy into Scam Altman but, if you can’t figure out with a regular search engine then you failed at learning how to use a regular search engine and is using A.I. as an excuse.

There’s so much information, misinformation, and random forum posts that using an search engine alone is hot garbage. And I’m not even talking about Google’s zero-click bullshit. Even using other search engines will only get you so far, so fast. Stack Overflow ain’t the resource it used to be, and even then, it was still rife with misinformation and noobs that didn’t know what the hell they were talking about.

The way I see it, there are two choices:

1. Spend 30-60 minutes trying to find the information I’m looking for.
2. Ask my Kagi agent to find what I’m looking for, give me the results in 1-2 minutes, and provide an intelligent list of options for my problem.

So all of this is just… No Scam altman is good? People like you miss the point and it scares me. Good reassurance for you but, understand the argument before you go repeating mouth of Scam Altman.