# AI Can Write Your CS Assignment. But Can You?

DevFeed: [AI Can Write Your CS Assignment. But Can You?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ai-can-write-your-cs-assignment-but-can-you-95273.md>)

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Author: David Faster

Published: 2026-10-22T07:30:08Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [HackerNoon](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hackernoon.md>)

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## AI overview

AI can produce working code without giving students the understanding CS coursework is meant to assess. The excerpt identifies risks: generated solutions may hide design tradeoffs, make debugging harder, miss edge cases, and leave students unprepared to explain their work; it also cites a study in which GPT-4 practice gains were followed by lower exam scores when access was removed. A binary search example shows how mixing exclusive and inclusive bounds causes failures on missing targets and empty lists, and how an explicit invariant guides the fix. The suggested routine is to check course AI rules, trace code by hand, test boundary cases, explain each decision with the tool closed, and rewrite a function from scratch. AI is presented as useful for boilerplate, syntax help, scaffolding, and discussion, with the output treated as a draft to inspect.

## Source excerpt

AI can write code that runs. CS coursework tests whether you understand it. Here's where AI code fails and how to check it before you submit.