> With the easy temptation of AI, many—possibly most—of my students were no longer willing to push through discomfort.

There's been an important shift in education in the last 20 years: a push for lessons to be short, entertaining and unchallenging. When students struggle with tasks, in many cases they are just told not to do them.

LLMs are the next wave of this shift - what could be awesome tools for research and writing will become a crutch. It's not so much an issue with LLMs as it is a shunning of any discomfort while learning in favour of amusement and enjoyment.