Posts about GenAI dependence

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14 October 2026 — Asking a chatbot to confirm a proof A chatbot log can show a student challenge a mistake, but it cannot show what they did before the first prompt. Two summers of perturbed assignments in discrete mathematics made that limit clearer to me. In two interviews from the later study, students described doing proofs first and turning to AI for certainty. I still need the written work and coded logs to determine what checking actually took place.