You have to understand. Education is a race against premature convergence. The longer you wait to build skills, the harder life pushes you to settle for something beneath your potential capabilities.
One of the laziest things you can do is berate yourself for being lazy. Stop judging your character and start building your systems. Wallowing in self-loathing is a form of procrastination.
So competency courses at Purdue are good since they introduce more areas of sustainable research for pro-GenAI students and pros from anti-GenAI students —gotta love PU