| Without any solutions or even problems to begin with and without having a teacher by your side, I found that LLMs can be a good-enough learning assistant. Of course, you cannot rely on their answers and they sometimes lead you astray, but what works for me is to: - throughout the text, use the LLM to ask questions, generate problems (I haven’t tried this yet, so it might not work very well) and give you hints on how to close the gaps in your understanding - reduce a given problem to the simplest possible case and ask how to solve that (if you want to check if your solution seems plausible) or if it can give you hints on how to approach the problem (when you are stuck) - vary the problem description to see if different approaches are suggested - critically ask questions about the (steps to the) solution or any provided hints (does something seem odd or logically inconsistent?) - other LLMs sometimes give you better answers (or contradict each other), so, if possible, try asking different LLMs the same questions Having this “conversation” with the LLM where you need to critically check everything it says has the added benefit of being more actively engaged with the material as opposed to simply looking up the solution. It may be a huge waste of time if you’re not careful, but I think if you use it intelligently to guide your own thinking, it can be very helpful. |