Can AI Pass Freshman CS?

January 17^th, 2026

Turns out, barely. I was back TA-ing CS 2112, the Honors Data Structures course at Cornell, for my fifth and final time last semester. Out of curiosity, I decided to run a little experiment where I took every single assignment, exam, and quiz from the class and ran them through the paid versions of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, including their agentic coding models for the projects, and graded the result as if they were…