If we're contributing anecdata I have used LLMs to tremendous effect to learn all kinds of interesting stuff because I like learning interesting stuff and LLMs can tailor the level of instruction to exactly where you're at and don't mind questions interrupting ever 6 seconds which is better than both textbooks and teachers, mostly.

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bluefirebrand 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Have you ever tried to do the thing you learned without the LLM holding your hand?

Or are you just assuming you learned something because you made a finished product of some kind?

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ex-aws-dude 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The question is does that even matter

You may argue what if LLMs are inaccessible but that’s like teachers saying “you won’t always have a calculator”

	▲	bluefirebrand 26 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		An LLM always being accessible is not my problem My problem is that filtering all of human creativity and expression through an LLM is ugly
	▲	walt_grata an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sure it does. I still nees to know the correct mathematics to type into the calculator and the calculator is deterministic. If you don't understand it without the llm explaining it, how can you be sure you actually understand it? How can you catch mistakes made due to it being non-deterministic? Ask another llm? Same problem