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Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

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179 points articsputnik | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 14:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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apparent ◴[28 Aug 25 17:07 UTC] No.45054529[source]▶
It would be good if there were a mode where AI trained the human operator as it worked, to reduce future reliance. Instead of just writing a document or editing a document, it would explain in a good amount of detail what it was doing, and tailor the information to the understanding level of the operator. It might even quiz the operator to assure understanding.

This would take more time in the short run, but in the long run it would result in more well-rounded humans.

When there are power/internet/LLM outages, some people are going to be rendered completely helpless, and others will be more modestly impacted — but will still be able to get some work done.

We should aim to have more people in the latter camp.

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Dlanv ◴[28 Aug 25 17:08 UTC] No.45054541[source]▶
Claude cli has this, called learning mode, and you can make custom modes to tweak it more
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1. apparent ◴[28 Aug 25 19:43 UTC] No.45056228[source]▶
Ah, cool. Is this meant to be used for learning specifically, or just something that can be toggled whenever you're using Claude to help you with anything?
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2. elliotto ◴[29 Aug 25 00:01 UTC] No.45058401[source]▶
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/

Openai released study mode. I don't think it's anything special beyond a custom prompt that tells it to act as a teacher. But it's a good example of what these bots can do if you prompt them right.

The bots as they stand seem to be sycophantic and make a lot of assumptions (hallucinations) rather than asking for more clarification or instruction. This isn't really a core truth to bot behaviour, and is more based around adhering to American social norms for corporate communication - deference to authority etc. You can prompt the bots to behave more usefully for coding - one of my tricks is to tell the bot to ask me clarifying questions before writing any code. This prevents it from making assumptions around functionality that I haven't specified in the brief.

For non-coding use cases, I like exploring ideas with the bot, and then every now and then prompting it to steel-man the opposing view to make sure I'm not getting dragged down a rabbit hole. Then I can take the best of these ideas and form a conclusion - hegelian dialectics and all that.