You are 100% right. For me, the most important thing is that the LLM teacher allowed me to break through my algorithmic ignorance in just one week.

The rest is somehow orthogonal to the LLM and is just pure practice. It is very easy to procrastinate with an LLM without actual practice.

It allowed me to actually see the problem space and something like the "beauty of classical algorithms". It shifted my "unknown unknowns" into "known unknowns". I had failed so many times to achieve exactly that without an LLM in the past.

Yeeah, LLMs are the perfect procrastination tool because they feel productive. You're "learning", you're "exploring", you're having this great conversation about the problem. And then you close the tab and realize you never actually wrote anything yourself.

The best procrastination device ever built because it validates you the entire time. Great post, even beyond the algorithms example.