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by camilomatajira 300 days ago
Anki is dead because, after LLMs were introduced, people lost the incentive to learn at all.

Frankly, who wants to learn something the old way when you can ask an LLM to do it for you?

All this reminds me of my home country when the Ponzi schemes were at their highest point (2008). There were small and medium cities, were a sizeable percent of the population actually stopped working at all! Why? Because the ponzi schemes were promising up to 300% returns within 6 months! And the Ponzi schemes were actually delivering (so much that the banks actually pressured the government to intervene). So people put all the money in the ponzis and simply wait a bit to cash in part of their returns. No one opened their small grocery stores, nor small pubs, nor did anyone want to do chores or manual labor. Until everything collapsed.