Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341172

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It's about guiding me in _doing_ exercises so I learn and I can evaluate if I learned something if I can apply the learning myself.

LLMs give me structure based on my current skill level. And basically always I accompany this with books, I love reading. It's a nice combination for me.

> I want you to create a tutorial series about X for me. The prime objective is that I improve in topic X so never provide a solution but guide and teach. (for programming never write code). First create a question catalog to assess my current level.

Then I would ask it to structure the tutorial challenges in the following way: - Goal - Concept - Instructions

I figured that if I don't need to read any additional material on the topic the LLM is giving me too much information and I need to change the prompt. Works for me and I used this too learn topics I feel now comfortable with, like nushell, opencyper, elisp, boot loaders etc. But maybe you don't consider this "complex"

https://www.lyx.org/

The enterprise tools I am currently working with often have outdated screenshots in their own documentation.

You would hire someone with the expactation that they learn, but you also need to pay them. New hires always slow the team down. And currently you wouldn't even get much out of them, as you can delegate those tasks to AI.

Additionally you can not even be sure that the junior will learn or just throw stuff at AI. The amount of vibecoded Code I have to review at the moment from Seniors is stunning.

So yeah, the market needs Seniors, but there is basically no incentive for a company to hire a Junior at the moment. It's just easier and cheaper to pay a bit better than the market and hire Seniors then to train a Junior for years.

For me it's pretty hard to work without type annotations, it just slows me down.

Don't get me wrong, I really like python for what it is, I simply missing out on the fast prototype stuff that everyone else is capable of.

The typing system makes it somewhat slow for me and I am faster prototyping in Go then in Python, despite that I am writing more Python code. And yes I use type annotations everywhere, ideally even using pydantic.

I tend to use it a lot for data analytics and exploration but I do this now in nushell which holds up very well for this kind of tasks.

I used neovim for 20 years and still like it a lot. But after some plugins broke I wanted to give helix a try. I am missing a plugin system in helix.

However, for me, helix comes with the nearly perfect amount of functionality, while being extremely responsive. It also made me appreciate stuff like multicursor, which I haven’t tried before.

I tried multiple out of the box nvim solutions, but never liked one of those.

I looked into zed, but don’t see much of a reason to use it. Maybe I should give it a try.

And if you might need to make the photo public, you could blur the faces.

Which is exactly what is happening here.