Thank you for sharing your personal journey. I too have (too) many ideas floating around, getting ready to fix everything I see broken, ignoring what's really important. So I whole-heartedly agree with "You learn how to program. You learn how to fix things. But the hardest thing you’ll ever learn is when to leave them broken."
The output is so convenient that these students seem like they don't even change bits of it to make it their own.
Since there is no "interdiction" to use any LLM, perhaps it should be mandatory to include the prompt as well when used. Feels like that could be the seed that sparks the curiosity..
Feels like it's more and more about consuming data & outputting the desired result.