Something I'm really interested right now is the balance in terms of the struggle required to learn something.
I firmly believe that there are things where the only way to learn how to do them is to go through the struggle. Writing essays for example - I don't think you can shortcut learning to write well by having an LLM do that for you, even though actually learning to write is a painful and tiresome progress.
But programming... I've seen so many people who quit learning to program because the struggle was too much. Those first six months of struggling with missing semicolons are absolutely miserable!
I've spoken to a ton of people over the past year who always wanted to learn to program but never managed to carve out that miserable six months... and now they're building software, because LLMs have shaved down that learning curve.
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That's fair.
Something I'm really interested right now is the balance in terms of the struggle required to learn something.
I firmly believe that there are things where the only way to learn how to do them is to go through the struggle. Writing essays for example - I don't think you can shortcut learning to write well by having an LLM do that for you, even though actually learning to write is a painful and tiresome progress.
But programming... I've seen so many people who quit learning to program because the struggle was too much. Those first six months of struggling with missing semicolons are absolutely miserable!
I've spoken to a ton of people over the past year who always wanted to learn to program but never managed to carve out that miserable six months... and now they're building software, because LLMs have shaved down that learning curve.