I’m the late 90s it was common to write programs to help you cheat at Physics exams. Might be horribly counter productive to actually learning the content.

Well anyone who is a software engineer would probably see it wasn’t.

By writing and endlessly debugging a program to solve physics problems, you ended up mastering the material. I’m not sure whether physics teachers turned a blind eye to this “cheating”

I’m imagining a similar “lengthy” chat interaction with ChatGPT to craft the perfect essay. Reading it, asking for edits, and tweaking it and so on. Maybe this is the optimistic take, but it could be students actually use it to produce, study, create, and “internalize” deeper arguments.