What professors are confronting is not a cheating problem — it is an assessment validity problem. A submitted essay, however sophisticated, no longer carries reliable evidence that the submitter understood what they wrote. The 60/40 split announced on Bluesky [3] — extended essay paired with a viva requiring students to trace every source in real time — is a direct response to this evidentiary collapse. The design forces the student to demonstrate the process, not just produce the artifact. When the artifact can be generated without the process, only the…