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So you say, you are a great autodidact. Good for you. Well, I guess I am, too, but I still see great value in asking specific questions to competent persons.
by lukan 1y ago
So you say, you are a great autodidact. Good for you.
Well, I guess I am, too, but I still see great value in asking specific questions to competent persons.
Or don't you think asking teachers/instructors questions is helpful?
- whatnow37373 1y agoI can’t remember ever asking a question and getting a helpful answer to be completely honest.. I feel weird when I read about people needing support. Maybe there is something wrong with me.
- lukan 1y agoTo also be completely honest, either you have been really, really unlucky with your teachers, or you should improve on the way you ask questions. I know I had mostly bad teachers and am largely a autodidact myself. But the few good teachers/instructors I had, were really helpful for my learning progress.
- pxc 1y agoYes, definitely. But I think reaching for an LLM can mean failing to build that reading muscle in the same way that leaning on teachers can. And I also think that many people never learn to read documentation not because they can't but because of a lack of willingness to try to learn to read specialized genres (of which technical documentation is just one). A teacher can be a unique resource, but asking the teacher is often more of a reflexive shortcut than the thoughtful use of a unique resource. I think use of LLMs (like StackOverflow before them) are more likely to discourage people from seriously or patiently reading documentation than they are to act as a stepping stone to a habit of more serious inquiry for most people.