And now the narrative has shifted to doing things fast without understanding. Otherwise you’ll be antiquated and outclassed.
It is true. I feel left behind—like I don’t belong in a world infested with ai slop.
And now the narrative has shifted to doing things fast without understanding. Otherwise you’ll be antiquated and outclassed.
It is true. I feel left behind—like I don’t belong in a world infested with ai slop.
You know you can use AI to help you learn right? Think about all the things you want to learn but feels too deep or daunting to start.
AI can summarize for you. It can translate to English that you can understand and give you examples. You can ask it questions you might be embarrassed to ask actual people.
And you can do it all right now for free. Knowledge is at its most accessible right now. It’s in your interest to utilize it.
If you learn from an AI you’ll learn like an AI. Which is to say shallow, disjointed, incoherent, and mostly wrong.
But hey, at least you burn down an acre of rain forest each class!
Feel free to give an example. But how would that be different from learning via a book, magazine, or YouTube video?
You don’t need to take everything it says as gospel, just like you’d cross reference any Google search of importance.
Just read the damned studies already, K?
And don’t ask the fucking parrot to do it for you. YOU do the mental work. YOU find the studies. YOU read the studies. YOU use YOUR brain to figure it out.
Lazy motherfucking slop-mongers are such a fucking pain in the ass.
So we’re gatekeeping learning to those who read well and have an abundance of time?
YOU are still doing the learning part. AI can simply make it more accessible to those who don’t have the time or dedication to go through some large textbooks or take classes on the topic. Or maybe you will do that, but not ready to commit that time and effort into the subject until you are sure it’s something you want to pursue.
AI averages all the text on the internet. So you cannot rise above this bar if you learn from an llm. It’s only possible by reading text books written by human experts.
I can give my field as an example. It’s been objectively measured that AI generates terrible code compared to humans on average. So if you learn coding from an llm it’ll be disastrous compared to learning from text books or courses.
Benefits of llms for learning are not demonstrated in the lab. Studies have only shown the opposite—that ai makes you stupid and delusional.
I think we should be setting expectations here. AI is perfectly capable at this moment to teach a newbie CS 101. Beginners do not write great efficient code because thats not the point at that stage. It should also be able to teach 201 in a general sense. Let’s say for the sake of argument its really bad at teach 300 level concepts. Ok? You would have gotten 2 years worth of CS then from something that would teach you on a personal level. Provide or suggest resources, and even work with you to debug your code. Don’t feel we need to demonize or downplay this. There’s other reasons to hate in AI.
Go ahead and ask Gemini (not exactly top tier LLM) to teach you python from scratch. Ask it to explain functions and for loops. Tell me if it’s a bad as you think. Feel free to post it failing here in the reply.
But it’s still good enough code at most levels that developers are using agents to either assist or write it for them. If you used the latest versions of Claude or Codex or even cursor you know this.
lol. Reminds me of the Subnautica 2 drama. A CEO has a rich guy breakdown and asks Chatgpt how to avoid paying the developers of that game after it becomes a huge success. Chatgpt gives him a failed plan which gets him sued.
And all his embarrassing deleted conversations with chatgpt were retrieved by police.
Yea. Just don’t ask AI how to void legally binding contracts.
Or actually listen to your lawyers after you run it by them.
To me there’s a world of difference between that and asking LLMs too teach you how to knit.
This exactly. Ask AI questions you wouldn’t know who to ask to. Researching a niche history subject and have a question? Not everybody’s actively going to school or knows a history major. Ask AI and it will do it’s best to give you an answer, maybe it’ll find something you missed. There is the risk of AI being wrong, but there’s the risk of a history major being wrong too. Verify the answer if you’re paranoid, but I think AI’s at the point where it can help people learn more efficiently if it’s used correctly.
Do this with a Local AI and you get the added benefit of not worrying about wasting water or “burning down rainforests”.