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- Embed this notice@theorytoe @tyler @unabomber I understand math reasonably well, and your explanation of this as "success by brute force" is spot on. For someone like me, a guy who likes to know how stuff works that I'm relying on, AI is incredibly useful for helping to learn syntax and use case. I once helped on a project involving a HUGE database that should've been handled by "data scientists", incorrectly given to the team I was with. We knew what we wanted to do, we knew it could be done in SQL or Excel, but we didn't know *how* to tell the computer what we wanted to get done nor check the work afterwards. AI spit out 15 different solutions that didn't work until we got one with ROW, a function I had never used before then. I learned how it works after reading up on it, tested it against a junk dataset, then rewrote it until I actually understood it and could properly implement it and error check. I guess the right type of person can use the tool to learn, but a lot of people won't care and will just use it to spoon feed and never learn why.