Teaching in the age of LLMs:
I failed 4 students, for the first time ever. I also gave more A 's than ever before.
In previous years, students realized after the first or second HW that they weren't in Kansas anymore and needed to work hard.
No more. Just solve it with LLMs.
But then the midterm arrives, and they can answer 0 of 40 questions. Do they reform their ways? Nah, they just decide to "give up" on class, assuming they'll get a B, or a C, or whatever, because they submitted HW and got decent grades on those. And never before have they encountered a professor who will dare fail them.
The flip side is that the most "agentic" students now have the world's best tutor at their disposal. They deeply understand the material and aced my (intentionally very difficult) exams. As if we live in "The Diamond Age".
Inequality galore.
From my vantage point, "the permanent underclass" appears to be about agency, not assets.