[marcus_holmes]

I think this is a passing phase - academia and the education system will have to adapt to the fact that LLMs exist and will be used, and that therefore the essay is no longer a useful artifact as evidence of learning. This is probably a good thing in the long run.

[perilunar]

Essays are still useful — they just need to be written by hand in exam conditions. No more take-homes.

[TremendousJudge]

yeah but writing an essay over the course of a week and over the course of two hours are entirely different experiences -- and the first one is the one that's usually useful in post-graduate life