alt Hacker Newsi don't really buy the "loosing skills" line. I'm not old enough to remember but it seems like this would be similar to an expert slide rule operator lamenting the skill loss because of using a calculator. A new tool has come out that antiquates some skills but requires a new set of other skills to master.
But it genuinely doesn't require much skill. That's the main selling point, in fact.
Look at the prompts used to make progress on the Riemann conjecture: https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta
> Throughout this process, Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”). This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress.
Jarred is not a mathematician, and not an expert on the Riemann conjecture. What new skill is needed to tell the LLM to believe in itself? What part of that work couldn't have been done by a ten year old?