Comment by suresk

Learning is about so much more than accessing information, though. It is about building mental models, resolving ambiguity, exploring things that the source doesn't explain very well, and so much more.

Questions like "What do these lines of code do?" or "How does this fit into the big picture?" or "Wait, this doesn't make sense?" are rarely answered by the source.

This is a bit fresher in my mind in the math domain, but I don't think it is any different in any number of other domains, including coding. I've been working through a math textbook, gotten confused about how the author gets from step 2 to step 3, taken a picture of the text, and had AI explain it to me - it almost always gives me a much better understanding of what is going on and helps make things so much clearer. There is a level of interactivity that can't exist in a book or other "source" of information.

I think there is a bit of tension when it comes to learning and sometimes the struggle itself is informative, but there is a reason people hire tutors and go to classes taught by teachers vs just reading a textbook, and cutting yourself off from a tool because you've seen it be wrong about something seems like a silly mistake.