[the_snooze]

In a way, I think it shows why "superfluous" things like sports and art are so important in school. In those activities, there are no quick answers. You need to persist through the initial learning curve and slow physical adaptation just to get baseline competency. You're not going to get a violin to stop sounding like a dying cat unless you accept that it's a gradual focused process.

[Telemakhos]

Sports and art aren't superfluous: they teach gross and fine (respectively) motor skills. School isn't just about developing cognitive skills or brainwashing students into political orthodoxies: it's also about teaching students how to control their bodies in general and specific muscle groups, like the hands, in particular. Art is one way of training the hands; music is another (manipulating anything from a triangle to a violin), as is handwriting. Without that training. Students may well not get enough of that dexterity training at home, particularly in the age of tablets [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43230884

[AllegedAlec]

With a bit more focus you might not have missed OP's point

[otabdeveloper4]

> You're not going to get a violin to stop sounding like a dying cat unless you accept that it's a gradual focused process.

You can sample that shit and make some loops in your DAW. Or just use a generative AI nowadays.

[rf15]

There are many ways to be a skillless hack, but why celebrate it?

[otabdeveloper4]

Beats me. You might ask Sam Altman and the other AI hype clowns. They're the authors of this hot take.

[bokoharambe]

Using a DAW makes you a "skilless hack"?

[_Algernon_]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/MagrittePipe....

[tarboreus]

You can also just sit in the corner and never make anything. So what?