alt Hacker NewsReading without actually doing does not really result in learning, only very marginal one.
Try reading tutorials on a new programming language for 30 minutes and then open new text file and write basic loop with print.
It won’t even compile- which shows you haven’t really learned anything. Just read an interesting story. Sure you pita few bits here and there but you still don’t know how to do even the moat basic thing.
Working with an LLM feels very different to me from reading a static tutorial.
It's more like having the tutorial author there with you and actively engaging with them to collaborate on building the exact tutorial for the exact project you're looking to build.
I'll take a bidirectional conversation with a subject matter expert (and when you're just staring to learn Rust LLMs can absolutely take the role of "expert", in comparison to you at least) over struggling on my own against static documentation and the Rust compiler.
And I can take over the wheel at any moment! It's entirely on me to decide how much I get to do vs how much the LLM does for me.
That's why learning in this way is a skill in its own right, and one that I'd like to see studied and formalized and taught to other people.