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by Imustaskforhelp 9 hours ago
I am currently just going to college after high school and I was preparing for the JEE exam and I remember such a question was within the textbooks of maths itself.

At first glance of the question, I had imagined it to be hard but then I read through the solution and other comments to recognize that I had in fact done such a question previously and I had solved it independently during the class if I remember correctly or such classes of problems.

I also agree with the AI and spreadsheets part of thing for what its worth but I can only tell more when I get into job but I have heard such things from my senior brothers.

I feel like there has to be a right balance of complexity though, and for what its worth I think that there are so many other things that one optimizes later on in life with tangential benefits as well with real knowledge about real life use-cases and edge-cases and so much more! I feel like it would be hard to replace with AI as much as (some) people (mostly Marketing) want it to feel so.

I do hope that people don't atrophy their skills though and to solve some coding questions or make projects perhaps as well without LLM by hand if given/having the time. Not everything probably has to be done by the fastest or the most accelerated way as you wouldn't know the destination as it would be found along the way itself. I suppose just like life, so stay safe and have a nice day.