[stephenr]

> llms can get me started really fast. Basically it distills the time taken to research something

> the llm doesn't make good long term decisions

What could possibly go wrong, using something you know makes bad decisions, as the basis of your learning something new.

It's like if a dietician instructed a client to go watch McDonald's staff, when they ask how to cook the type of meals that have been recommended.

[datsci_est_2015]

I’m bearish on AI, but I still think this is disingenuous. My grade school math teachers were probably not well-versed in Calculus and Real Analysis, but they helped me learn my time tables just as well.

AI is great at exposing you to what you don’t even know you don’t know: your personal unknown unknowns, the complexity you’re completely unaware of.

[stephenr]

> My grade school math teachers were probably not well-versed in Calculus and Real Analysis, but they helped me learn my time tables just as well.

Are you somehow equating basic multiplication to a "bad long term decision"?