3 points by iknownthing 1 hour ago | 5 comments
- I just ask LLMs questions about things I'm curious about. I don't really want to follow someone else's predefined curriculum. A curriculum is necessary when the information has to be delivered in a lecture, but not in a 1-1 interactive setting.
If you type "I want to learn CUDA programming. Where should I start?" into Claude, it gives a pretty plausible outline. It's not clear what an app could add to it.
- I've used it to teach myself system design in a way that works for me, enabled me to land a new job.
Use case doesn't take off because you need to critically assess what it's telling you and push back if it doesn't make sense.
- The most vocal crowd that I've heard from so far aren't interested in learning with AI, because it has to do everything and why its so slow GENERATE EVERYTHING.
- Why do you need an app? I learn using AI, I don't see what needs to be improved (Aside from making it smarter etc. which an app can't do)
- You don’t learn anything from LLMs. They are good as a reference, not teaching.
They are likely actually worse than other electronic learning (which is already bad) because of how human preference optimized they are, same as eating ultra processed food is easy but not very good for you.