Seriously watch if you're a computer science student | Brilliant

AI tools like ChatGPT are enabling students to complete assignments without truly learning, diminishing the value of CS degrees. To build genuine programming skills, students should struggle with problems for at least 30 minutes before using AI, build fundamental data structures and algorithms from scratch, explain AI-generated code line by line, and regularly solve problems without AI assistance. These strategies require discipline but help develop real problem-solving abilities and coding intuition that passive learning through tutorials cannot provide.