Comment by swyx
12 hours ago
> whatever you learn will be obsolete next month
this is exactly the kind of attitude that turns university courses into dinosaurs with far less connection to the “real world” industry than ideal. frankly its an excuse for laziness and luddism at this point. much of what i learned about food groups and economics and politics and writing in school is obsolete at this point, should my teachers not have bothered at all? out of what? fear?
the way stable diffusion works hasn’t really changed, and in fact people have just built comfyui layers and workflows on top of it in the ensuing 3 years, and the more you stick your head in the sand because you already predetermined the outcome you are mostly piling up the debt that your students will have to learn on their own because you were too insecure to make a call without trusting that your students can adjust as needed
The answer in formal education is probably somewhere in the middle. The stuff you learn shouldn't be obsolete by the time you graduate but at the same time they should be integrating new advancements sooner.
The problem has also always been that those who know enough about cutting edge stuff are generally not interested in teaching for a fraction of what they can get doing the stuff.