> So how do I answer my child when he asks "Why should I learn to do X if I can just ask an LLM and it will do it better than me"
1. You won’t always have an LLM. It’s the same reason I still have at least my wife’s phone number memorized.
2. So you can learn to do it better. See point 1.
I wasn’t allowed to use calculators in first and second grade when memorizing multiplication tables, even though a calculator could have finished the exercise faster than me. But I use that knowledge to this day, every day, and often I don’t have a calculator (my phone) handy.
1. You won’t always have an LLM. It’s the same reason I still have at least my wife’s phone number memorized.
2. So you can learn to do it better. See point 1.
I wasn’t allowed to use calculators in first and second grade when memorizing multiplication tables, even though a calculator could have finished the exercise faster than me. But I use that knowledge to this day, every day, and often I don’t have a calculator (my phone) handy.
It’s what I tell my kids.