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Sockpuppet wrote:

It definitely is not as effective to be given an answer as it is to discover it yourself.

I notice things stick a lot more for me if I Google them vs. just having an AI spit out the answer.

Though ChatGPT gave me a good training today on CTEs. I had stopped coding a lot of SQL by the time they became popular.

AI is for a quick answer to keep you moving forward. True learning comes from reading long form stuff like books and articles, in my opinion. I think these young kids using it to read and everything else are going to suffer hardcore later on in life. I am so glad most of my education was pre-internet, so I had to use card catalogs and librarians to help me find information. Hell, I am the only person in my IRL social circle who still enjoys reading a book. It's probably something left over from the hunter-gatherer era of humanity...