🎓CS Student Says AI Briefs Triple Coursework Load While Tutors Burn Out

Your CS degree may be getting harder for the wrong reasons

A computer science student with a B in GCSE maths and zero prior technical training is describing a university that can't decide how it feels about AI. Students are told to use AI on one assignment, then lose marks for using it on the next. That's the whole problem in one sentence. If you hire junior engineers or mentor them, this matters. The student's coursework now comes from AI-generated briefs that often get little human review, so errors pile up and corrections land close to deadlines. The people paying the price are tutors, who are stretched thin while administrators chase scalability and automation. The numbers are rough. The student says the amount of work per assignment has tripled since AI-generated briefs arrived. Their tutor only gets in touch when data dashboards flag that they haven't logged into the online portal for a while. That's a system measuring logins, not learning. The student still wants to study maths and computer science, and they're building simple games on OpenProcessing and sharing them publicly. Worth watching: whether universities settle on a clear AI policy before this cohort graduates.