I think it’s a bit of both. It’s very important to struggle with a problem yourself. You need your brain to be thinking about it, turning it over, at least for

I think it’s a bit of both. It’s very important to struggle with a problem yourself. You need your brain to be thinking about it, turning it over, at least for a bit. But when you’re new on a topic, it can take hours to nail the solution by yourself. I’m thinking of science & math practice problems. If you skip ahead to look at the answer, you can use it to work backwards, to understand where you were struggling and going wrong. Crucially, you’re not just copy/pasting the answer. But taking this “shortcut” early can definitely be helpful. It’s very easy to spend a lot of time going down the wrong path. If you can take the shortcut when you sense that’s happening, and really try to understand why that wrong path isn’t right, I think the shortcut can help speed you up. I think the same applies with LLMs. It’s important to not just have the LLM do it all from the start. But when you start getting stuck, having it give you recommendations is a good way to get tutored, so long as you’re really thinking about it.