> My recommendation would be to encourage the tutor to ask the student how they use the LLM and to school them in effective use strategies
This reminds me of folks teaching their kids Java ten years ago.
You’re teaching a tool. Versus general tool use.
> Those calculators are largely still what you get nowadays too and I suspect that LLMs will settle into a similar role
If correct, the child will be competent in the new world. If not, they will have wasted time developing general intelligence.
This doesn’t strike me as a good strategy for anything other than time-consuming babysitting.