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by Bostonian 819 days ago
I suggest starting kids with Python and asking an LLM like ChatGPT for help when stuck.
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That sounds like a great method.
This might be the wrong website upon which to poo-poo LLMs, but as a counter-observation: the trick with LLMs is knowing how to evaluate their output for correctness, since hallucination is a very real risk. Professionally, reading forums, blogs, and the Stack Exchange network carries similar risk, but also comes with (a) at least they were trying to be helpful (b) the voting and moderation system as a mild form of reining it in

Thus, unless one wanted to make a "ParentalLLM" through which one could submit questions to an ourhouse.internal/api/v1/prompt api and get back "chat" responses over sms/some existing chat protocol, I'd carefully consider the risk verses reward of bringing LLMs into that process

I also recognize that I came up in the era of autodidactic lessons, and that predisposes me to "teach yourself how to fish" style approaches, but just wanted to draw attention to those LLM interactions coming with trade-offs

I don't know what the right web-site would be to "poo poo on LLMs" :) It's here or nowhere, I think. Also, thanks so much for these nuanced reflections on the pedagogy. Super helpful.