[mike_hock]

> Ask a question.

> Ask two follow-up questions.

> Ask about a seeming contradiction between the original answer and the answer to the second follow-up question.

> Get congratulated for raising such a great point and get parroted back your objection as a "correction."

Useful as a learning aid if applied cautiously but maybe not the "best thing ever."

[theptip]

I thought the dichotomy would make this clear, but the claim was not that however you use AI, it’s the best thing ever. To be more explicit:

_used correctly_ and to the fullest of its capabilities, AI is the best technology ever invented for learning. If you don’t believe this as a technical HN person at the epicenter of this technology’s capability set, I probably can’t persuade you. But you can do a lot better than your transcript.

Used in the default mode, or with a desire to take shortcuts, or a desire to minimize what is perceived (often correctly in the case of many school curriculae) as BS fake work, it is the best technology ever invented to avoid learning.

[QuesnayJr]

FWIW, I liked the way you expressed it through a dichotomy.

[jplusequalt]

>_used correctly_ and to the fullest of its capabilities

How often do children do things the "correct way" or know how to get the most out of a thing?

[theptip]

That’s our job as educators, not the kid’s. “The correct way” obviously requires scaffolding.

[runarberg]

Useful as in “better than nothing” but lacking as in “inferior to almost anything else”.