Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C...
by theptip on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:18PM
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> That's a bit pedantic
It's a pedantic reply to a pedantic point :)
> If I'm prompting a LLM, what's the bridge from prompt engineering to software engineering?
A sibling also made this point, but I don't follow. You can still read the code.
If you don't know the syntax, you can ask the LLM to explain it to you. LLMs are great for knowledge transfer, if you're actually trying to learn something - and they are strongest in domains where you have an oracle to test your understanding, like code.
It's a pedantic reply to a pedantic point :)
> If I'm prompting a LLM, what's the bridge from prompt engineering to software engineering?
A sibling also made this point, but I don't follow. You can still read the code.
If you don't know the syntax, you can ask the LLM to explain it to you. LLMs are great for knowledge transfer, if you're actually trying to learn something - and they are strongest in domains where you have an oracle to test your understanding, like code.