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usonian

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8. But you're not a kid. You developed learning and reasoning skills.

Thu Jul 10, 2025, 09:40 PM

Jul 10

Will kids learn them, or push buttons?

You need those skills even more now, to make sense of all the output, or to create useful prompts.

This guy argues that it's like rapid prototyping was in the 80's. Quick to learn how to make something that "just works" but anything complex requires big picture design/architecture/engineering skills, and experience to find the goofs and corner cases. "Watch that next step. It's a Doozy"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524216

Someone said: "It’s not that AI is helping do the work of 10 engineers. It’s that engineers are able to use AI to build better products and explore unknowns easily."

And how do you explore vast unknown space? With learning and reasoning skills and creative imagination.

And how do you develop them when there's always an instant answer with a keypress?

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An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education [View all] usonian Jul 10 OP

teens love AI cuz it's a shiny new toy. when they are all unemployed by age 30 they may change their minds lol nt msongs Jul 10 #1

Did anyone notice a shortage of "let me think this through" in this country? usonian Jul 10 #2

Thanks! Signed by this educator! GPV Jul 10 #3

Great letter, and an incredibly important cause! K&R, and thanks for posting this, usonian! highplainsdem Jul 10 #4

GenAI is now an established and defining anciano Jul 10 #5

The internet replaces dictionaries and calls to your grocer. usonian Jul 10 #6

I respect your viewpoint.... anciano Jul 10 #7

But you're not a kid. You developed learning and reasoning skills. usonian Jul 10 #8

Bottom line: GenAI is now an irrevocable part anciano Jul 10 #9