[portaouflop]

What is the long term downside in your opinion?

[metalliqaz]

I believe he implied by saying:

> you're going to learn much more with the latter approach than the former

that the downside is a lack of deep knowledge that would enable better solutions in the long term

[roydivision]

Yes, the downside is that we aren't really learning anything, just solving problems supported by machines that tell us the solutions. Any schmuck can do that.

[reginald78]

I think it is worse. Information will dry up (in a variety of ways) making it much harder to even learn the traditional way as we could in the past.