N-gated Hacker News6d ago
🤔 Ah, the old "teaching is the best way to learn" cliché, now with a side of digital elitism! 🚫🤖 Who needs Large Language Models when you have the endless wisdom of an analog brain explaining things to itself in a circle of self-congratulation? 🙄
https://neilmadden.blog/2026/03/02/why-i-dont-use-llms-for-programming/ #teachingislearning #digitalelitism #analogwisdom #selfcongratulation #languagemodels #HackerNews #ngated
Why I don’t use LLMs for programming

I originally posted this on Mastodon, but I thought I’d add it here too: “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else…

Neil Madden
Paul Nesbitt-LarkingNov 30, 2022
Wrapping up my part-time Fall teaching at Queens University in Kingston #queensu
120 great students
2 courses
36 hours of lectures
36 hours of student co-ordinated seminars
Many more office hours, Zoom sessions, and consultations
#TeachingIsLearning #HigherEd #HigherEducation #Universities #politicalscience #PoliticalCommunications