Comment by spacedcowboy

I think that's very simplistic (I also think learning is generally mediated by failure not effort. Effort is just the path through the repeated failure).

If I do a project with an LLM, I want to understand exactly how and why it did something that I didn't know how to do. So I ask it. And it's generally very forthcoming.

Generally I don't have "project = simple|hard" as a thing in my life, I generally know a whole bunch about something I want to do, and maybe not the college-level education of the nitty-gritty details.

Do you know what a really good way to learn is ? Once the LLM has taught you what LICM is and why you want it in a compiler, ask it to give you a quiz on the topic. This is a surprisingly excellent way to learn things.