[paulmist]

> Up until this point, both students had nearly perfect homework grades while failing every in-class quiz.

From a student's perspective: I think it was the same with SO. While LLMs make c&p even easier, they also have the upside of lowering the bar on more complex topics/projects. Nowadays, the average person doesn't touch assembly, but we still had a course where we used it and learned its principles. Software engineering courses will follow suit.

[Izkata]

StackOverflow users at least tried to fight against it. The disdain for anything that looked like "homework questions" was one of the reasons it got a bad reputation among some people.

[baq]

Yeah they should stop being so hard about these, it isn't like anyone is coming for homework to SO anymore. It's all LLMs and they do not refuse.

[zahlman]

The problem isn't that the question is "for homework".

The problem is the lack of analysis that goes into producing a useful question for others that fits in with the rest of the site.

True, proper analysis of the homework rarely yields such questions, and even less so in 2025. But the point was always to have a question that's about a clear, specific problem, not about a task that was assigned. Because the latter can only possibly help people who were assigned the same task.

[code_for_monkey]

they can be a tad overzealous!