danjovich

I agree with this point.

Maybe all education will get more and more similar to e.g. learning an instrument.

You can get everything from YouTube videos, sure. But a good teacher will help with things like knowing how to get a good repertoire for your skill set, what bad habits not to develop that will cripple your ability to learn more complex pieces over time, etc.

I think expertise in hard subjects will only become more and more valuable (as always), and thus harder and harder (and more expensive) to achieve.

> But today that's no longer the truth, and for the better. I am happy students don't have to go over the same repetitive low-value processes that I had to go to. Students can now focus on more high level valuable tasks: understand the domain, compare evaluation methods, compare models, balance tradeoffs, present solutions/reports, etc. It's like in the 50s when students had to memorize tables of logarithms. Nobody misses that.

Maybe when it comes to any coding-related learning, I can agree with that point.

However I think the future of education in general is very bleak. When we have plummeting scores for the PISA exam across the world [1], I fear people will get dumber and dumber.

There will always be those who thrive, but the easier it is to obtain information/knowledge, the less I think people have an incentive to do it. And I don't buy that AI will solve all intellectual jobs anyway.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/pisa-2026-results-reading-math-scores/...

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