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Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old by notpushkin on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:38PM (#34285254)
You are a GPT-4 prompt monkey. Your experience is your prompt data. The more diverse it is, the better off you are.

Now, college / uni plays an important role here. It helps you learn how to learn stuff. If you're already good at learning things (and I mean really, really good), you can skip it. Otherwise, you should at least give it a try. Of course, try to get into a good one.

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Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old by RadiozRadioz on Saturday January 07, 2023 @08:59AM (#34287992)
College teaches you how to memorize stuff and regurgitate it in exams. For practical / understanding-based coursework, it may teach you how to learn stuff, but for the smart students it instead teaches them how to craft an answer to fit a mark scheme. Are those useful skills? Probably. Do you need to spend tens of thousands for to learn them? Probably not.
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