Youngjae Lee

Law Professor, Fordham Law School, criminal law & punishment. Author of Criminalizing Disobedience (Oxford University Press, 2026)

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔UC Berkeley's computer science department just posted its worst failure rates in years. 35.3% of CS 10 students got F's in spring 2026, up from under 10% in prior semesters. Professor Dan Garcia says the primary driver is a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" through LLMs. Students use AI to complete assignments, never learn the material, then fail exams. His office hours, once full, are now empty.

My Take
Companies are firing experienced engineers while the pipeline that produces new ones is being gutted by the same technology. Students use AI to bypass the hard part of learning, show up to exams without the understanding, and fail. One professor discovered a student's linear algebra class had an "open AI" policy for homework and exams. That student then couldn't do basic linear algebra in the next course.

Both ends of the workforce are eroding at the same time. Senior engineers are getting cut to fund AI spending. Junior engineers are graduating without the skills because AI did their coursework. And the companies spending trillions on these tools haven't connected those two facts yet.

Hedgie🤗

[Connor Ewing @ConnorMEwing]

Amazing how these students were able to learn without laptops or cell phones.

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

This single tweet -- especially its brazenness, self-righteousness, given the seriousness of the issues involved -- is doing quite a damage to the reputation of academics. Our most important product is Truth, and academic integrity is what ensures that. Ridiculous own-goal.

[Lenka Zdeborova @zdeborova]

@eiszett Have you read all the sources you ever cited? During my PhD we, along with dozens of other papers, cited a paper that I later found did not contain the result for which it was commonly cited. I should be banned I guess.

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

i hate questions like this - as if education is about learning some concrete discrete thing X to be used for some concrete discrete task A later.

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

NEW ARTICLE: Fourth Amendment law recognizes a buffer zone around the home—so-called "curtilage," that cops can't enter outside an "implied license." SCOTUS says this is all intuitive and found in social norms.

But is it? We decided to ask people.

BONUS: Lots of pictures!

[Mattathias Schwartz @Schwartzesque]

feel very fortunate that there was no AI around to bail me out when I was stuck on various pieces in my 20s

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

What are the best intellectual biographies written since 2000?

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

"Dudamel, who starts in New York in the fall, has made a point of finding an apartment within strolling distance of Lincoln Center. 'This area is wonderful,' Dudamel said during a recent interview at Geffen Hall." https://t.co/UnwHdvSkKN Hey, @FordhamLawNYC, use this quote.

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

Inglourious Basterds, bar scene

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

Best shootout scene in a movie ever?

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

cool. still making snow.

[Magic Mountain @SkiMagicVT]

Guns going on Upper Wand, Lower Magic Carpet, Lower Show off, base area and Upper Magic Carpet in key areas! ❄️❄️

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

wow i agree with richard brody on something

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

Most acting, not best acting. Terrible choice of Sean Penn for a terribly directed, misdirected performance

[Hélène Landemore @landemore]

French sociologist Alexis Spire has a book out called "Legitimate distrust" (Légitime Défiance in French) where he documents the loss of trust in state institutions over the last decades. Amazingly the French equivalent of the IRS is one of the only state institutions whose rate of approval goes up upon interacting with it, unlike the police or the justice system. They go out of their way to be nice apparently.

[Japan Society Film @js_film_nyc]

Reworking the plot of LATE SPRING, Yasujiro Ozu’s masterpiece LATE AUTUMN stars Setsuko Hara—no longer the ebullient ingénue—as serene and composed widow Akiko whose daughter Ayako becomes the unwitting subject of an orchestrated matchmaking.

Screens next Fri 3/6 on 35mm.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to see why they're so good at the Winter Olympics & i was yelling BC IT'S COLD THERE

then she went to a little ski jump for kids & was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

This book is now available online (https://t.co/2fpK2uZ4y8), and, by the way, it has a discussion of IEEPA, at issue in the tariffs case. See index (IEEPA (International Emergency Economic Powers Act (US)), 178, 179–80, 241).

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

Forthcoming Oxford University Press, early 2026.

https://t.co/79ZKsusybe

[Dr. Dominic Ng @DrDominicNg]

Writing forces your brain to coordinate memory, reasoning, and meaning-making simultaneously.

Every time you write, you rewire toward clearer thinking. Every time you let an LLM do it, you rewire toward consumption.

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

What Mounk says is plausible - AI can do political theory. What follows? All those undergrads are told to read these texts not to become political theorists but to become smarter. Maybe AI can replace political theorists, but people still need to study to become smarter.

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Yascha Mounk on how AI can write political theory papers that are at the same level of his books: https://t.co/Xw15MaUuxW

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

https://t.co/jX5dpMsaVx

[Youngjae Lee @_jaelee]

1) a well designed constitution for the modern times + 2) amendability (with a truly representative process) + 3) originalism seem to me to be a pretty good combination. If we don't have the first two? To quote Ralph Fiennes in Skyfall, "Then we're all buggered. Carry on."

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Bad idea top to bottom. We need a move against juristocracy, not for better judges. https://t.co/lGdq0Jw2w2 via @NYTOpinion