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Harvard replaces freshman advisers with a chatbot

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Harvard is replacing freshman faculty advisers with ChatGPT for the class of 2030, while Cursor shipped a version rebuilt from scratch around agents.

Reporting date: 2026-04-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 3, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Harvard replaces freshman advisers with a chatbot
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-04-03
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-03-harvard-replaces-freshman-advisers
Claim: Harvard is replacing freshman faculty advisers with ChatGPT for the class of 2030, while Cursor shipped a version rebuilt from scratch around agents.
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- Welcome to April 3, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-3-2026
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