> Industry is full of people trying to use them to become more productive

The goal of learning is not to be as productive as possible. You need to learn the material so you can check and fix the output of an LLM.

> Why wouldn't you let students use the same tools?

Students should use those tools, after they've learned how to do it without

> Seems like you need to make the projects much harder.

The goal of a project should be to learn the material with hands on experience.

I will always be grateful to my school teachers that forced me to learn arithmetic and not rely on the calculators we all carry in our pockets.