The workshop argues AI-resistant assignments are temporary at best, reframing design goals toward tasks whose difficulty survives AI completing part of the work¶

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q1 i? Participants argued AI-resistant programming assignments are no longer possible or last perhaps a semester, so the design goal becomes a task whose difficulty survives AI doing part of it. → Muhammad Sajjad Akbar 2026

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Muhammad Sajjad Akbar 2026¶

Muhammad Sajjad Akbar, Geoffrey Challen, Fraida Fund, Casey Hopkins, Oscar Karnalim, Kevin Lin, James McGuffee, Shubbhi Taneja, Ranysha Ware. (2026). AI Can Do Your Homework. Now What? Report from an online workshop on computing assessment in the age of generative AI. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27842 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.27842

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Open-Ended & Authentic Task Design room, second hour. One participant argued AI-resistant assignments are no longer possible; the facilitator amended that they are possible but temporary, lasting perhaps a semester. This is the authors' interpretation of the discussion, not a tested result.

"If resistance has a shelf life, the design goal is not a task AI cannot do but a task whose difficulty survives AI doing part of it."

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