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Respectfully, this is an incredibly weak take. You are making a lot of assumptions about someone's ability to learn with AND without assistance, while also mak

Respectfully, this is an incredibly weak take. You are making a lot of assumptions about someone's ability to learn with AND without assistance, while also making rather sci-fi leaps about our brain somehow being able to differentiate between learning that has somehow been tainted by the tendrils of ML overlords. The models and the user interface around them absolutely will continue to improve far faster than any one person's ability to obtain subject mastery in a field.

YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago
Just to clarify, I didn't say anything about the OP's "ability to learn". I know nothing about that and can't tell anything about it from their comment. I also didn't say anything about how our brain works, or about "the tendrils of ML overlords". If you want to have a debate, I'm all for it, but if you're going to go around imagining things that I may have said in another timeline then I don't see what's the point of that.
- peteforde 2y ago
  Your comment said, in many more words, that to embrace LLMs for learning or knowledge enhancement might pay off in the short term but will leave you stunted and operating in a local maximum of potential and possibility. You could be right, but I strongly suspect that you are actually wrong.
  - YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago
    Nope. I said that refusing to learn something will leave you stunted. I did not say that using an LLM will leave you stunted. The OP said: >>> For example my Python knowledge is limited and I don't really use it often, so I don't want to spend time to better learn it. And I replied: >> Respectfully but that's a bit like saying you don't need to learn how to ride a bicycle because you can use a pair of safety wheels. It's an excuse to not learn something, to keep yourself less knowledgeable and skillful than you could really be. Why stunt yourself? Knowledge is power. "It's an excuse to not learn something (...) Why stunt yourself?".

YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago

Just to clarify, I didn't say anything about the OP's "ability to learn". I know nothing about that and can't tell anything about it from their comment. I also didn't say anything about how our brain works, or about "the tendrils of ML overlords". If you want to have a debate, I'm all for it, but if you're going to go around imagining things that I may have said in another timeline then I don't see what's the point of that.

peteforde 2y ago
Your comment said, in many more words, that to embrace LLMs for learning or knowledge enhancement might pay off in the short term but will leave you stunted and operating in a local maximum of potential and possibility. You could be right, but I strongly suspect that you are actually wrong.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago
  Nope. I said that refusing to learn something will leave you stunted. I did not say that using an LLM will leave you stunted. The OP said: >>> For example my Python knowledge is limited and I don't really use it often, so I don't want to spend time to better learn it. And I replied: >> Respectfully but that's a bit like saying you don't need to learn how to ride a bicycle because you can use a pair of safety wheels. It's an excuse to not learn something, to keep yourself less knowledgeable and skillful than you could really be. Why stunt yourself? Knowledge is power. "It's an excuse to not learn something (...) Why stunt yourself?".