Professor: Students Spend 5 Prompts Polishing A 2-Line Email Via AI
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-14
Professor Paul Novosad shares a firsthand observation: student chat logs are full of sessions using 5 prompts to refine a 2-line email. Some students write every email this way—arguably more work than writing it themselves—because they are 'mentally incapable' of doing anything without asking an AI first.
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