Exactly. It's similar in other (non programming) fields - if you treat it as a "smart friend" it can be very helpful but relying on everything it says to be co

Exactly. It's similar in other (non programming) fields - if you treat it as a "smart friend" it can be very helpful but relying on everything it says to be correct is a mistake. For example, I was looking at a differential equation recently and saw some unfamiliar notation[1] (Newton's dot notation). So I asked claude for why people use Newton's notation vs Lagrange's notation. It gave me an excellent explanation with tons of detail, which was really helpful. Except in every place it gave me an example of "Lagrange" notation it was actually in Leibniz notation. So it was super helpful and it didn't matter that it made this specific error because I knew what it was getting at and I was treating it as a "smart friend" who was able to explain something specific to me. I would have a problem if I was using it somewhere where the absolute accuracy was critical because it made such a huge mistake throughout its explanation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation#Newton's_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation#N...