Incorrect. Fundamentals must be taught in order to provide the context for the more challenging open-ended activities. Memorization is the base of knowledge, a starting point. Cheating (whether through an LLM or hiring someone or whatever) skips the journey. You can't just take them through the exciting routes, sometimes they have to go through the boring tedious repetitive stuff because that's how human brains learn. Learning is, literally, a stressful process on the brain. Students try to avoid it, but that's not good for them. At least in the introductory core classes.
I guess I should have phrased it differently - what I meant was just stop testing the tedious stuff, make it clear to students that learning the fundamentals is expected. Then examine them on hard exploratory problems which require the fundamentals.
