Ask HN: Are people generally interested using LLMs for learning purposes? When LLMs first hit the scene I had assumed one of the big use cases would be to use the LLM's vast knowledge to teach people about subjects they are interested in. I thought there would be some hot app that let you suggest a subject (e.g. CUDA programming) and the app would interactively teach you and test your knowledge along the way. How come this use case never took off? |
If you type "I want to learn CUDA programming. Where should I start?" into Claude, it gives a pretty plausible outline. It's not clear what an app could add to it.
Use case doesn't take off because you need to critically assess what it's telling you and push back if it doesn't make sense.
You can just do it in the chat interface
People do that all the time now
For more complex stuff, like setting up AWS object storage, it can honestly teach you step by step, that is if you're willing to actually absorb the information.
They are likely actually worse than other electronic learning (which is already bad) because of how human preference optimized they are, same as eating ultra processed food is easy but not very good for you.