What 765 Students Taught Us About Learning, Hacking, and Everything In Between

"In January 2026, 765 students enrolled in a graduate course about AI tools. What followed was not quite an exam. It was closer to a social experiment — one that nobody designed on purpose."

The exam had twelve questions. Eleven of them measured skill. The twelfth — and this is the one nobody expected — measured whether you'd noticed that the first eleven had already been solved by someone else.

This is what 765 students, 9,046 saved submissions, and 1,731 evaluated AI images can tell you about how people learn when the answer is always one search away.