@futurebird What a great set of discussions and thanks for being a teacher! (They pretty much make the world go round, imho.)

I'm not one, but have taught some people coding over the years. Most recently I've seen that LLMs compound the problem you describe, because when the student has posted hundreds of lines of code to answer some fairly standard coding assignment, they have jumped so far into the deep end, that it's very hard for them to get out. The pasted code does all sorts of things they don't yet know about. Hopefully not your situation. Hopefully a lesson in its own right, but getting this young person to slow down and *do it themselves* was non-trivial.

On a different tack, a project manager I knew once said energy project needs a project teddy bear. Any coding issues have to be explained to the bear first before getting senior help. The bear apparently solves 60%+ of the issues. Apocryphal, maybe.