alt Hacker News>>Learning comes from grinding
Says who? While “grinding” is one way to learn something, asking AI for a detailed explanation and actually consuming that knowledge with the intent to learn (rather than just copy and pasting) is another way.
Yes, you should be on guard since a lot of what it says can be false, but it’s still a great tool to help you learn something. It doesn’t completely replace technical blogs, books, and hard earned experience, but let’s not pretend that LLMs, when used appropriately, don’t provide an educational benefit.
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djeastm • 06/17/2025
Sure, but easy in, easy out. Hard earned experience is worth soo much more than slick summaries of the last twenty years of blog articles.
Pretty much all education research ever points to the act of actually applying knowledge, especially against variable cases, to be required to learn something.
There is no learning by consumption (unfortunately, given how we mostly attempt to "educate" our youth).
I didn't say they don't or can't provide an educational benefit.