Comment by marcus_holmes

> We can’t give a generation of kindergarteners calculators and expect them to produce new math when they’re adults: how will they ever form mathematical problem solving skills?

Arithmetic has nothing, literally nothing, to do with "new maths". A calculator won't help you with algebra, or shortcut any mathematical problem solving. It will just help you with dividing up the restaurant bill, which is the hardest maths problem the vast majority of humans will encounter.

> I think the same principle applies for LLMs - they can be a tool but learning how to do things without them is still essential. Otherwise we might not have any more good authors in 10 years.

Did we stop having any good new portrait painters once we'd invented the camera? The people who really want to write a book will still write a book.