Short Thoughts

Quoting Unmesh Joshi via The Learning Loop and LLMs

An AI can generate a perfect solution in seconds, but it cannot give you the experience you gain from the struggle of creating it yourself. The small failures and the “aha!” moments are essential features of learning, not bugs to be automated away.

Relatedly, on the topic of learning, I was pondering today how popular AI chat apps are great at providing answers, but that is often opposed to learning.

This brings to mind the concept of designing a system so that users fall into the pit of success, instead of the pit of despair. When using the popular AI chat systems for learning they are designed so that by default users fall into the pit of despair, they are detrimental to learning. But it does not need to be that way. Chat systems can be designed so that users fall into the pit of success, so that by default they enrich the learning process.