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The problem is that tools like AI are useful if and only if you have the prerequisite knowledge, otherwise they are self-destructive. It's similar to a calculator. We give student graphing calculators, but ONLY after they have already graphed by-hand hundreds of times. Why? Because education does not work like other things. Efficiency, in education, is bad. We don't want to solve problems as fast as possible, we want to form the best understanding of problems possible. When I, say, want to book an airplane ticket, I want to do that in the fastest way possible. The most efficient manner. I care not about how an airport works, or how flight numbers are decided, or how planes work. But efficient education is bad education. We can skip 99% of education, if we wanted. We can have, say, the SAT - and spend 1 year studying only for the SAT. Don't bother with the other 12 years of schooling. Will you get an acceptable score on the SAT this way? Maybe. Will you be intelligent? No, you will be functionally illiterate. If we use AI for programming before we can program, then we will be bad programmers. Yes, we can pass a test. Yes, we can pass a quiz. But we don't know what we're doing, because education is cumulative. If we skip steps, we lose. If we cut corners, we lose. It's like trying to put a roof on a house when the foundation isn't even poured. |