My favorite way to learn infra topics at work right now is asking for a humorous analogy involving monkeys and bananas. I tend to remember the result, and it gives me reference points for new topics.

haha, I did the same to study new topic and then realized how personalized education will turn out in the near future. The only thing left is keeping a curious mind and ask a lot of questions !!

Oh, I do similar, but using single page websites.

Last month, I read The Prince and had it make a text adventure campaign for me.

For a lot of other topics, I often just ask it to create a simple python example that I can run.

LLMs can help you understand a language, but they can't replace learning the vocabulary. Words and phrases still need to be learned the old-fashioned way: repetition

AKA - How I skim read a lot and learn nothing of value.

I don’t think I really agree with the author’s approach here, but I will say LLMs have been a huge help to me as I’ve been reviewing linear algebra and diving into signal processing. Anything in a textbook that I don’t fully grasp or am confused about, I just take a snapshot or copy paste then ask a model to derive it or explain it in different terms.

It reduces friction a ton, but at the end of the day I’m not skipping anything.

The selected topic (chip manufacturing) is being presented at a shallow level at best. Go read Wikipedia’s article [0] and see how deep and broad the topic is. It also skips quite a few steps, and utterly glosses over how insane of an accomplishment EUV is.

This is my biggest societal issue with LLMs: they allow you to think that you’ve “learned” a topic because you read a lot of technical terms. I don’t think it bodes well for the future.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_device_fabricati...

YouTube has so many truly wonderful videos on chip production. I admire your approach but it seems like a lot of people are in this ai maxxing phase where they reach for ai for everything despite their being ready, high quality things already available for free

> What you get is a beautiful animation that is 100% accurate and free of hallucinations.

How do you know if you're learning this for the first time? Very risky to learn from LLMs. I've done it, but you have to keep your wits about you. Lots of "oh of course you're right - what I just told you was completely wrong".

Building learning artefacts is under appreciated.

Inthink this was always the best way to learn. But it used to require immense work for a teacher.

My compiler course is a great example - program in plug in a stage of a compiler.

These exercises can be made on demand and incredibly easy now.