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I think friction is important to learning and expertise. LLMs are great tools if you view them as compression. I think calculators are a good example, people like to bring those up as a gotcha, but an alarming amount of people are now innumerate on basic receipt math or comprehending orders of magnitude.


It is absolutely essential that we still have experts who know the details. LLMs are just the tide that lifts all ships.




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