I think many people forgot what mastery entails. It's all about being reliable to reproduce a process or solving a problem. Sometimes the process is determinist

I think many people forgot what mastery entails. It's all about being reliable to reproduce a process or solving a problem. Sometimes the process is deterministic and we engineer a tool for it. Or it's not and we need to approach it the old way by learning and training. Providing truthful information is one of the latter and one of the flaws is our memory. Writing it down or recording it correct this and the next problem was retrieving the snippet we need. That's one of the things lawyer does. They don't invent laws out of thin air, they're just better at finding the helpful bits. Even today, I spend a lot of time looking at libraries and languages documentation to verify a hunch I have. But I still have to go through the learning phase to know what to search for. In Dreyfus Model of skill acquisition, we have these four qualities: Recollection (non-situational or situational) Recognition (decomposed or holistic) Decision (analytical or intuitive) Awareness (monitoring or absorbed) The novice is described by the left values and the expert by the right values for each attribute. For the novice, every part is costly. For the expert, mastery has reduced the cost for taking actions while still having the possibility to do a more deliberate approach when the chance of error is too high. Novice are hoping LLMs can reproduce mastery, expert knows that LLMs inherent capacity of making errors make it a liability. We need better tools, not probability machine.