placeholder drafting. Realizing, i have discussed the topic of llm short cuts many times, but have not mentioned how prescient the 2012 article from erik dietrich on this was. on the rise of the expert beginner , wrt using llms and them holding you back stunting your deep learning.

And similarly, people code agentic harnessing their way to freedom maybe similarly as erik’s bowling onology, will not know how stunted they are the more proliphic the harnesses become.

I got onto this topic listening here [1], on the goldilocks zone for LLM use wrt to writing, coding, note taking and anything else. Carl and Casey discuss that it is difficult to determine be the sweet spot especially since after all, history said writing and books will stunt minds at one point in the past.

So maybe if there is a level of challenge, and you dont feel bored, you feel you are challenging yourself in the right way, learning transferable problem solving skills and critical thinking, then thats all fine?

references

  1. philosophy, programming and prompts virtue ethics episode, https://youtu.be/xhgREGlAnPU
  2. Erik dietrich, rise of expert beginner, https://daedtech.com