Why don’t colleges teach LLMs? I have been thinking about this a lot. Because every time I sit in class and hear, “Today we will learn Chapter 4 ,” my brain whispers, “But the world is already on GPT-5.” Here is the reality: Students are learning AI from YouTube faster than colleges can update a syllabus. LLMs are everywhere now. Companies use them. Startups build on them. Even assignments secretly depend on them. But colleges? Still stuck teaching technology that retired peacefully in 2018. I genuinely had a moment last week where I asked myself: Why are we not learning the tools the world actually uses? Because imagine this: → Students building agents → Students automating workflows → Students understanding prompts like they understand memes → Students using AI to supercharge projects instead of just submitting PDFs The level of innovation would explode. But instead, we are here… Writing notes from slides older than us. It is not that colleges cannot teach LLMs. They absolutely can. The real problem is speed. AI updates every month. Syllabus updates every century. By the time a topic gets approved for the curriculum, the industry has already moved three versions ahead. Students deserve better. We deserve learning that matches the real world, not the old world. Until then, we will keep learning LLMs on our own. At night. During breaks. Through experiments, errors, and excitement. Because the future is not waiting for any syllabus update. #college