[hooverd]

I think LLM codegen still requires a mental model of the problem domain. I wonder how many upcoming devs will simply never develop one. Calculators are tools for engineers /and/ way too many people can't even do basic receipt math.

[jack_pp]

Calculations are for calculators. I was good at math in school but now I struggle / take so much time doing receipt math and for what? What's the purpose of the time you spend doing it, when do you need to have your brain trained for this specific task?

[hooverd]

For me, being able to notice when you mess up your own calculations. It doesn't help that we teach arithmetic operations ass-backwards (smallest to largest instead of largest to smallest).