Sounds like you need to not be condescending :)
Of course I've searched and tried countless of avenues to pick up this, I'm not saying it's absolutely not possible without GPT, just that I found it the easiest way of learning.
And it's not "Write a function that does X" but more employing the Socratic method to help me further understand a subject, that I can then dive deeper into myself.
But having a rubber duck is infinitive worth, if you happen to a programmer, you probably can see the value in this.
> have you tried using it in an area you're an expert in ? The rate of convincing bullshit vs correct answers is astonishing. It gets better with Phind/Bing but then it's a roulette that it will hit valid answers in the index fast enough.
Yes, programming is my expertise, and I use it daily for programming and it's doing fine for me (GPT4 that is, GPT3.5 and models before are basically trash).
Bing is probably one of the worst implementations of GPT I've seen in the wild, so it seems like our experience already differs quite a bit.
> you won't know when it's bullshiting you and you're missing out on learning how to actually learn.
Yeah, you can tell relatively easy if it's bullshitting and making things up, if you're paying any sort of attention to what it tells you.
> By the time LLMs are reliable enough to teach you, whatever you're learning is probably irrelevant since it can be solved better by LLM.
Disagree, I'm not learning in order to generate more money for myself or whatever, I'm learning because the process of learning is fun, and I want to be able to build games myself. A LLM will never be able to replace that, as part of the fun is that I'm the one doing it.