[calepayson]

In your opinion where is the line on where LLMs are useful/harmful to learning?

In my school projects I've found them super useful for working with libraries. In the past it felt like the theory I learned was pretty low impact. 80% of my time was spent learning the quirks of a library. Now it feels like I can take theory and iterate over a ton of different solutions without having to worry about learning whatever library the professor requires. Basically I'm I feel like it lets me spend more time learning the thing I want to learn rather than all the busywork around it. Would be curious to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

[numeri]

I would just warn that you may not be able to recognize what is worth learning at your stage.

Intuition for library design and the architecture of software packages/external APIs is something you can only learn by doing.

[rahimnathwani]

If you don't want to improve your ability to work with new libraries, then that's your decision.

[smcg]

I thought this was one of the most important skills to have early in my career.

[rahimnathwani]

Yup!