I'm learning by doing things.

For example: AI has helped me get into restoring retro tech, specifically resoldering leaky caps on retro Macintosh logic boards. Before AI, I didn't know how to use a multimeter (I knew theoretically how it worked), I didn't know how to use flux, solder wick, heat gun. I also didn't understand how bromine radicals yellowed plastic and how to reverse it by using blue light similar to what they use for indoor aquariums.

So AI unlocked doing for me.

You realise that every single one of those things had easily accessible videos to learn from, right?

You're happy using AI instead of other material because it will constantly tell you how brilliant you are, or how quick you're learning.

No, not everyone, there's no easily accessible video showing how to setup aquarium lights to slowly de-yellow ABS plastic -- at least I didn't find one; AI helped me find an obscure reference to it and I then read a few message boards where it was mentioned.

I also use AI to take in-progress pictures as I desolder to help me check for traces that need to be repaired or help identifying specific chips. I probably could try and find a video where the same chip is featured and someone explains it, and/or retrieve the schematic for the specific logic board, but that's very painful and does slow the process. Think of AI, in this specific case, as enabling skill development for me in a field I wouldn't have necessarily have gotten into, because of being short on time and AI helps me consolidate that information quickly.

Should we also go to ancient scrolls for learning, because videos are too easy? The poster showed you how they learn with the help of AI. You can learn from videos, they learn from AI. What's the problem?

You are very closed minded. LLMs can absolutely give pragmatic and fast information in a useful (non-sycophantic form). You need to examine your extreme biases here.

Just because you can't use a tool doesn't mean the tool isnt useful.

Your bias on display here is frankly silly. Im not saying LLMs are ALWAYS the best way of learning something just like they aren't always the best at anything. They are a valuable tool though. Yes so is youtube and textbooks, and professsors, and peer review literature, and pen and paper, and block training etc.

> So AI unlocked doing for me.

I don't quite follow how AI unlocked any of that?

The best way to learn these things (well, second to a human coach who has the expertise and has time to guide you) is from youtube videos, not AI.

See my later post in this thread, I go into more detail about how I use AI in the restorative process.

In addition, I literally had AI build a complete list of parts to order from Amazon down to the caps for each system I wanted to rebuild -- it was close to 20 different items, I would have probably given up if I had to try and assemble this list from different YouTube videos.

or https://sydneygigguide.net/dl/893a15 in Sydney.

This is an interesting comment -- your life is precious brother, you might have something in store down the road :)

Depending on one's age, maybe not honestly? (Not the OP)

If they’re that age, they’re not qualified to be in the crew anyway.

John Glenn was 77 when he flew on the Space Shuttle...

In your opinion: at what age does someone become unworthy of life?

That’s definitely not my point, what I meant was it’s not unreasonable for someone who’s older - maybe children have grown, at our nearing retirement, etc. - why not take a risk to fly to space?

Precisely, there are about 100 of these, and everyone makes a new one every week.

This is entirely predictable: we get an army of vibe coders, vibe coding up tools to make vibe coding easier.

For simple stuff like this, it's easier to have the agent build something than it is to figure out how to install someone else's.

He's correct internationally, compared to real socialists in countries like Australia/NZ, US dems are definitely mildly center right.

This is more accurate, I've written enough code in my life to never really want to do it again ....but I still love creating (code was merely the way to do it) so LLMs help with my underlying passion.

I don't find the same, like you, principle/CTO engineer, there's a world of difference between simplistic prompt/vibe coding and building a properly architected/performant/maintainable system with agentic coding.

That's great and I'm the same, 40s multiple founder and I was ready to hang it up after my last exit -- had 0 passion to code anymore and now I'm back and LLMs are reigniting my passion to create again.

It's Qwen3.5 now, you're a bit behind the times.

Same, I have a bunch of skills defined ith proper YAML headers and semantic triggers installed, I make a point of listing not too many but making it quite specific.

Even with that, I have to be very specific in triggering a skill and it's hit or miss if it picks up on the skill -- usually I have to say there is a skill with this go and use it.