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New comment by yondys in "We should be more tired than the model"

yondys — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:13:45 +0000

That's an interesting idea, but if the tools are really the problem, is there an actual way that we can solve this? How?

New comment by yondys in "We should be more tired than the model"

yondys — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:09:14 +0000

Not the author, but one way you could mitigate some of the LLMs problems while learning (authoritatively stating wrong facts, reward hacking, ...) is to have it give you testable code exercises to teach you facts. So you can get the benefits of the LLM AND deterministically verify its claims. I've been trying this lately and recovering some of the lost joy of learning CS nowadays.

New comment by yondys in "We should be more tired than the model"

yondys — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:04:28 +0000

Lately I've been thinking about this a lot. I've slightly shifted my use of Claude from implementing tool to scaffold generator for me to actually do the hard parts. It's frustrating at first, because the impulse always is "I could get Claude to do this in minutes", but that's just the brain trying to spare some energy.

I've found that it's much more rewarding to use LLMs as an aid to deep work instead of a substitute for it, and it's even helped me feel more optimistic about my place in this field after a couple of days of getting used to the mental friction again.