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Re:Show HN: Learn from AI Experts on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:21AM (#47573351)

Oh did not know cliffnotes is a thing! And yeah tbh I'm guilty of buying more books than i can read .. and this actually helped to decide if i should buy the book or not

Re:Show HN: Learn from AI Experts on Sunday March 29, 2026 @05:42PM (#47567662)

Glad someone else is doing this! Underrated use of LLMs tbh - basically distilling the llm to our brains xD

Ill try to scramble something with links, not sure if can be done reliably.

Re:Show HN: Learn from AI Experts on Sunday March 29, 2026 @05:40PM (#47567635)

Yeah i mean all of the world books are in the LLM in a way, but they dont give the full script, basically compressed summaries .. i can say for sure all LLMs miss critical details from book text, so i still recommend ppl buy the books!

Show HN: Learn from AI Experts

Posted by techypicky on Sunday March 29, 2026 @05:29PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://teach-me.replit.app/

I built a Replit app for something i constantly do with LLMs - I always ask Gemini about books on a certain topic, then ask the llm to give me a summary of the book its chapters - this helps me: 1. keep the llm grounded as a real expert (instead of saying pretend to be an engineering expert, give it a distributed systems book and then ask opinions on it) 2. helps me discover and buy books! Once...

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Re:Show HN: Book Grounded AI Learning on Thursday March 26, 2026 @04:14AM (#47527832)

Agreed! Best books Ive ever read were recommendations by friends or pros in the field. The first principles way for search works too! Since going through the book on high level is less time consuming

Will see if i can get some reviews or links into this

Show HN: Book Grounded AI Learning

Posted by techypicky on Thursday March 26, 2026 @03:17AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://teach-me.replit.app/

I constantly ask Gemini/ChatGPT/Claude about books on a certain topic, then ask the llm to give me a summary of the book its chapters - this helps me: 1. keep the llm grounded as a real expert (instead of saying pretend to be an engineering expert, give it a distributed systems book and then ask opinions on it) 2. helps me discover and buy books! Once i go through book concepts and chat with...

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