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100% disagree. The more you don't know an area, the more LLMs will lead you astray. Explaining difficult topics or summarizing to you is fine. But that's a wor
by brianpan 14d ago
100% disagree. The more you don't know an area, the more LLMs will lead you astray.
Explaining difficult topics or summarizing to you is fine. But that's a world of difference from having an LLM write for you. You THINK the LLM is helping you write above your level, but that's because you are not in a position to tell it's bad.
- robwwilliams 13d agoActually I am in a very good position to tell. And who said “write for you”? How about “write with you as a collaborator?”. Writing is a form of thinking and writing with an LLM makes the argumentation, discussion, and progress toward goals faster and often better in my situation. I am stating an opinion based on 2.5 years of intense interactions and writing with Anthropic models on a difficult topic related to asynchronous computational systems. Background: I am a neuroscientist and behavioral biologist (45 years of experience) who understands the biology of behaviors fairly well but I need to translate this background into hardware architectures that get beyond current asynchronous system (e.g., this recent neuromorphic paper in Nature Communication by Li et al., 2025, A deterministic neuromorphic architecture, doi.org/10.1038.s41467-025-65268-z). Working AND writing with Opus and now Fable has been a blessing of sorts.