Comment by titzer

> to show mastery of a topic

How do you show mastery of a topic where you neither understand fundamentals nor have skills to do a task without help?

Mastery is about demonstrating skills. Skills take practice, hands down.

AI can help us build better tools, provide tutoring, answer broad ranging questions, help relate concepts, and do reasoning for us. All of those things can be good in that they can help us acquire skills faster, e.g. with better practices and exercises. But it cannot replace actual time spent doing a thing.

Wanna learn knitting? You're going to have to knit some stuff.