taste and judgment, which you can only obtain by having a strong CS base and coding manually for years.
I disagree, the definers of taste; art and food critics, movie and book reviewers, don’t need to have learned the craft by doing. Taste is a separate skill.
The exams need to change. Now that we have LLMs the value a human can bring to a task has changed and it’s that new value that has to be tested.
It’s like testing your drawing ability in a photography class. The difference is that now nearly have subject and testing method we have has become obsolete. Drawings courses still exist as will traditional courses, but the main stream has changed and exams and schools need to adapt.