I understand your intentions but I'm skeptical even this solves the problem.
Realistically I think we're just moving away from knowledge-work and efforts to resuscitate it are just varying levels of triage for a bleeding limb.
In the actual workplace with people making hundreds of thousands a year (the top echelon of what your class is trying to prepare students for) I'm not seeing output increase with AI tools so clearly effort is just decreasing for the same amount of output.
Perhaps your class is just supposed to be easier now and that's okay.
What do you view as coming after knowledge work? Do you think we'll see a resurgence of physical, in-person work?
Not rhetorical, I'm genuinely curious and could see that being a real scenario.
With an ageing population, I don't think we are going to run out of the need for basic healthcare workers.
Serfdom, possibly WALL-E but that's an optimistic scenario. WALL-E people actually live a somewhat dignified existence compared to other possibilities.
Digging people out of the codebases they're going to shit out with this technology.