You can show someone how to safely use a chainsaw, but the people who build replacements for or better chainsaws often have worked building, repairing, and usin

You can show someone how to safely use a chainsaw, but the people who build replacements for or better chainsaws often have worked building, repairing, and using those tools day in and day out. Education involves repeating things others have done, doing them wrong, and learning from that. When you give someone a tool which just gets the answer without having to understand why, you never have to build the mental model that lets you understand how things can be better. You see this in software: tools can let you build an app in a day, but if you just use those tools you will have no idea why your app is slower than it has to be or what other things are possible. When tools let everyone outsource their writing and even their thinking to machines, many of them are not "working faster" - they are skipping crucial steps and acting without understanding. Tools can allow many people to become moderately proficient rapidly, but when they are introduced immediately they can hinder the development of becoming incredibly proficient.