Agentic Coding Tools in Higher Education: Solving Problems or Creating More Headaches

Agentic AI coding tools are rapidly becoming embedded in everyday practice in higher education. This session asks the question the adoption conversation often skips: are we solving problems or quietly creating new ones? Taylor Bohn and Luc Letarte explore data exposure risks, security and governance concerns, over-reliance and cognitive debt, and what a structured, governed, and ethically grounded approach to AI adoption actually looks like in a university context.