This is another nonsensical AI-hate article. AI is a tool; you can trivially use it for learning or for evading learning.
Consider for example something simple as coffee. It can stimulate you, but if you over-consume it, it will inevitably ruin your sleep and make you more fatigued. This doesn't make coffee antithetical to energy.
It's a reasonable article (not that I agree with every word, just that it's not "nonsensical"). It doesn't encourage hatred for AI. AI is not like coffee (or a hammer, or the cotton gin, or...).
Are you just reacting to the title? "Antithetical to learning" is an exaggeration, I think. But AI obviously has fundamentally changed learning. It makes active learning easier, but with some caveats about the nature of its output. On the flip side, it heavily reduces the passive learning that once happened while working. It pushes more responsibility onto people to take time to actively learn, while at the same time reducing concrete motivation to learn, which is a bad combo.
Another day, another click-baity title about AI. Of course the article is more nuanced than its title, but still... I now learn much more than ever and it's all because of agents. There's something great for learning about a machine that can explain in various ways without getting tired of repeating and without ego.
I'm anti-AI to write code (coz' I simply love it since +40 years, so why should I ask something to do it for me?), but the title is just click-bait anyway. The article itself even has some clues that contradict the title. I precisely often use it to learn stuff, nothing else. Because you never stop learning about code. Granted I don't use AI the way 99% people do, that's for sure (I never felt the need to pay for it TBH).
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Are you just reacting to the title? "Antithetical to learning" is an exaggeration, I think. But AI obviously has fundamentally changed learning. It makes active learning easier, but with some caveats about the nature of its output. On the flip side, it heavily reduces the passive learning that once happened while working. It pushes more responsibility onto people to take time to actively learn, while at the same time reducing concrete motivation to learn, which is a bad combo.