One thing I probably should highlight more in the post is that the proprietary models (like Claude and Gemini) that most students currently have access to can already ace the assignments.

This is a thorny question and mostly comes down to what we're trying to teach. I wonder if a progressive approach where at early stages of teaching there is no automatic tooling but as critical skills are learnt more can be automated. It's a bit of a moving target at the moment though.