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0 pointsindymike1y ago0 comments

> Using an LLM to do schoolwork is like taking a forklift to the gym.

I'm sure the time has come for college students to master using LLMs. It's just as important as grammar or basic math now. The software I build (and the entire tech industry) automates huge swaths of business processes with AI. Students need to be able to understand, work with, and manage swarms of AI agents doing work.

To stick to the analogy:

I need skilled forklift drivers, not big buff workers like I used to.

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doctorwho421y ago

But the thing you are missing is that one needs a solid foundation of knowledge of the actual work to be able to manage it well.

Someone with years of coding experience is going to be able to laser guide an AI agent to the answer/result than someone who has muddled their way through comp sci 101 using an AI chatbot.

indymikeOP1y ago

No one is saying they don't need a solid foundation of knowledge. The knowledge needed is different. What we're seeing now is lot like teaching people to care for a horse even though the automobile is now the dominant form of transportation

johnnyanmac1y ago

If you need forkloft drivers, don't recruit at the gym and be mad no one is forklift certified there.

This isn't even an opinion on LLMs, it's recruiting 101. You're free to convince the gym to train forklift drivers, but don't be surprised when you're laughed out the room.

whattheheckheck1y ago

It's the other way around... people will happily pay to be "forklift driver certified" and a piece of paper that gets them a bit higher in the hiring line. Especially when they'll pay way more for that than ethereal "thinking skills" that they can't even reason why they'd need that in the first place

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