Hopefully, you’re still in school because you understand that it’s still important to learn something in this education you are paying for, even if your endgame is to just receive a degree you can flash to employers and get on with your life. Imagine that it’s required to join a gym and complete a bunch of fitness courses in order to land a certain job, such as being a firefighter or some other physically demanding work. Would it be ok to just send in a robot in your place to do all that heavy lifting and other workouts? Even if you could get away with it, why would you want to, especially if you expect to do well in that job?
While I understand Lin's attempt to reason with the archetype of the lazy postsecondary student, whose mantra is "Cs get degrees," I think that there a lot of institutional issues that are not being touched on.
A lot of university students pay everything that they have to take courses that are beyond out of touch with their interests and career path. While, Lin stated that university is not vocational school, this section brings it back to the idea of becoming successful in a certain field. I find this confusing and inconsistent.
I believe that one of the issues that pushes students towards AI use is the fact that programs rarely reflect people's goals. They are often a combination of learning vocational knowledge, niche interests that do not appeal to everyone and whatever electives fit into one's schedule.