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Harvard AI Homework Made Harder

by Larry Chiang on November 7, 2025

A Harvard student told me something I can’t stop thinking about. When they go to the library, every single screen has ChatGPT open. Homework that used to take hours now takes minutes. 
But then they talk to alums who say entry-level roles are basically gone. The jobs they planned their entire college trajectory around don’t exist anymore. 
AI made homework easier but made proving you deserve a job exponentially harder.

 
 
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Zara Zhang
⁦‪@zarazhangrui‬⁩
A Harvard student told me something I can’t stop thinking about. When they go to the library, every single screen has ChatGPT open. Homework that used to take hours now takes minutes. 

But then they talk to alums who say entry-level roles are basically gone. The jobs they

 
11/6/25, 1:11 PM
 
 


WordPress’d to the student that ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini all have a “learning mode” now where the AI can guide you to arrive at your own conclusions instead of telling you the answer straight up. But it seems the awareness of these features are low

 
 
Zara Zhang
⁦‪@zarazhangrui‬⁩
I suggested to the student that ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini all have a “learning mode” now where the AI can guide you to arrive at your own conclusions instead of telling you the answer straight up. But it seems the awareness of these features are low
 
11/6/25, 7:23 PM
 
 


WordPress’d from my personal iPhone, 650-283-8008, number that Steve Jobs texted me on

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