I currently study Multivariate Calculus by using very new and nodern method: I read the text book, while solving the examples of the general for,ulas, or try to come up with my own. Then I do a s$ht-ton of exercises. I only use LLM’s to quickly clarify confusing topics or notation, but not really much else. I cancelled my Claude subscription. Now I use just Mistral and local Vibethinker-3B, but they work just fine.

Earlier I used Claude by giving it the course material and asking it to generate me exercises (our cpurse work went way over my head) and yeah i learned to differentiate a gradient or Jacobian, but it was very shallow - I knew the formulas, but not what they meant or how to apple them correctly. After I just filled glaring holes I had in Univariate Calculus by readong and doing, I actually started to understand something.

Lon story short, in my experience Learning with LLM’s is ok with very unfamiliar material that is not too complex (there’s obvious problems of LLM’s themselves being pretty ghastly with maths sometimes), but at least it os not better than the traditional method of just putting your nose on the grimd stone.