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At what point does "not keeping up with the cheaters" become "There is a more efficient way to do the task and this student's grade reflects they are choosing the inefficient approach?"

I'm reminded of the stories of employees getting busted because they were assigned a job so trivially automatable they either did automate it or they used some find-labor service to delegate it for a fraction of the cost out of their own pockets, who are then accused by the company of "not working."



It's the same logic of letting a machine do a gym exercise vs doing it yourself, you're missing the point of it, because otherwise the gym exercise is mostly useless.




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