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None of what you said contradicts what I said, so I guess nice strawman?
It's not a competition now is it? You can learn by going to the library and reading on the subject, enroll in classes physically or online through video courses, you could join a bootcamp if you wanted. Some are free some are not. Some have teachers or mentors you can talk to, but are they going to cater to your every question at all hours of the day? AI offers another (cost effective) avenue for people to learn and they can choose their most effective method or methods to do so. Seems pointless to be so doomer about the learning aspect.
Ok? Don't develop parasocial relationships with AI? Don't use it to skip learning?
Few people could sit down to read a book before AI. You could take this argument, remove AI and its relevant since social media.
4 is anecdotal but yes that is a side effect of having AI code for you. An accountant is going to become less sharp at math than he was previously if he let's excel calculate everything for him. You adapt. I've never said agent AI is flawless or perfect. But it is undeniably useful that most devs are now using it. Are you going to criticize every dev for not knowing how to code in assembly?
I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say besides AI bad. World is not black and white. Despite everything else, AI can help enable people to learn things they previously could not. We cant completely control the other stuff but we can absolutely take advantage of a tool to help us.
I wrote it to prove that for most people LLMs impair learning.
Yes counting the billionaire subsidies. But it's very costly on the planet.
Sorry most people do. Few people use heroin to get better from sickness doesn't mean the majority of people who get their hands on it will abuse it.
Everything you said is anecdotal—that too a very unpopular opinion at that. Lol.
yay we both agree. What has worked in schools is banning a calculator until a student gets proficient in basic arithmetic and math.
That's what has worked. You can obviously use a calculator to check your answers etc without cheating and get better at math.
But that rarely happens in the real world.
If you haven't done even a little bit of assembly then you don't know the fundamentals of CS—how a processor works etc. Yes I would criticize such devs.
They fool you into thinking that you learned a lot. Why don't you learn something with ai and then take a university exam or apply it in the world with chatgpt off?
I'm sure you'll fail horribly.