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Jtsummers 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why teach calculus in the age of AI

> The study of calculus will be replaced by tooling that carries out the mechanics of differentiation, integration, finding extrema, etc, making such education obsolete.

What makes you think this time is different? We've had tools for those things for decades now.

ryandv 11 months ago [–]

Exactly the things that differentiate LLM tooling from traditional vim, IDEs, valgrind, gdb, linters, the coreutils, ...

Jury's out on whether or not that collection is non-empty.

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