[tnel77]

>>Learning comes from grinding

Says who? While “grinding” is one way to learn something, asking AI for a detailed explanation and actually consuming that knowledge with the intent to learn (rather than just copy and pasting) is another way.

Yes, you should be on guard since a lot of what it says can be false, but it’s still a great tool to help you learn something. It doesn’t completely replace technical blogs, books, and hard earned experience, but let’s not pretend that LLMs, when used appropriately, don’t provide an educational benefit.

[sorcerer-mar]

Pretty much all education research ever points to the act of actually applying knowledge, especially against variable cases, to be required to learn something.

There is no learning by consumption (unfortunately, given how we mostly attempt to "educate" our youth).

I didn't say they don't or can't provide an educational benefit.

[fullstackchris]

Some of the best software learning I ever had when I was starting out was following along with video courses and writing the code line by line along with the instructor... or does this not count as "consumption"?

[sorcerer-mar]

> I was... following along and writing the code line by line

That's application. Then presumably you started deviating a little bit from exactly what the instructor was doing. Then you deviated more and more.

If you had the instructor just writing the code for every new deviation you wanted to build and you just had to mash the "Accept Edit" button, you would not have learned very effectively.

[djeastm]

Sure, but easy in, easy out. Hard earned experience is worth soo much more than slick summaries of the last twenty years of blog articles.