Intern Interviews | How MIT Students Are Thinking About AI Right Now

How is the next generation of builders thinking about AI? We sat down with Sarah Su—MIT junior, HackMIT organizer, and Cerebras intern—to talk about how students are really using AI, what's happening to technical depth, and why the smartest people she knows aren't chasing big tech jobs anymore. What we talked about: → How professors are responding to AI tools (and whether they can actually detect usage) → Why MIT's startup culture is "really hot right now" → The rise of "LLM wrapper" projects at hackathons → The HackMIT project that won for the right reasons → Why "ideas are cheap, e…