High schoolers can't fathom 10-page papers without AI; Gen X: we did it by hand, unread book and all
alvelda · x · 2026-09-09
A viral anecdote: some high schoolers said "no way" people wrote 10-page papers without AI. The quoted reply: Gen X wrote them without reading the book, the night before they were due, by hand and in cursive — "we are not the same."
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