Comment by BoredomIsFun

> No it's not useful, no you don't know what you're doing, and no it is not 'proper'. But you're learning.

It is sold by PG as something special though.

> Maybe just accept that not everyone starts from fundamental theory, and there are lots of people who start learning by fooling around.

Even then LLMs are strange thing to advice to play with, when there are so much more interesting and theoretically accesible for a 17 y.o. so I wonder why would you'd particularly single it out.