Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation | Hacker News

LLMs lack the ability to understand a question or experience from different points of view, though they can, if prompted, generate a simulacrum of differential perspectives. Here’s Breen:

The issue is that generative AI systems don’t want messy perspective jumps. They want the median, the average, the most widely-approved of viewpoint on an issue, a

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I think PMs and product leaders are under-investing in generative AI fluency & building the hard skills necessary to future proof their careers. Sure folks can mumble about semantic search or "agents" or chat as an interface, but could they sit down and really spec a great AI… Show more

t doesn’t help that the two most impressive implementations of AI for real work - Claude’s artifacts and ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter - are often hidden and opaque