@futurebird I agree that independent learning and being prepared to make some effort navigating through trial and error but people behave like making any cognitive effort I.e. learning “by trail and error” is “an affront” to their personage.

@futurebird

It’s not just kids. I’ve seen grown adults, paid a salary to come up with solutions to problems, also asking,
- “keep it simple and tell me the “one right answer”!
- “Give me the answer and don’t make me work for it”.
- “I don’t want to make an(y) effort. Give me the answer”.

It is a kind of “cognitive abdication”, “don’t make me think” or learned/programmed helplessness.

@futurebird
OMG! I was discussing this “one right way” or “where is the template?” Linear thinking, simplistic, “100% certainty” approach.
A(ny old) way - tends to be the first solution people come up with in solving a problem. Then they stop looking.
The (most suitable) way - is the optimum way to address a need or problem and requires critical thinking/effort/patience/determination/tenacity/perseverance/grit/adaptability.

@futurebird
Having similar struggles.
Show & tell: Diagrams help person showing their idea to transmit it visually so observer can build their own mental models.
I saw your explaining diagram before the words & it totally “made sense” as I had lived experience of “end of string knot failure” mode compared to relying on earth friction physics-https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115950780276008456
Had I seen the words first, I’d have interpreted them drawing my own imaginary diagram, that would not likely going to match yours.

@glent @johnzajac the current Perl error comment is a classic example of survivorship bias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
That’s the bullethole that did not disable the plane(or world wide computer network)

Y2K impact would have been the equivalent of every Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Oracle datacenter shutting off at the same instant in time and going offline.
ATMs, Supermarket Point of sales, planes, power stations, etc. all going offline too.

@thomasfuchs
Open A(ll those) eye(s) -

@futurebird @david_chisnall
Yes! AI-LLM is a “word calculator for grammatically correct responses”. No intelligence present

Intelligence = ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

@futurebird do your students think that writing code is like writing a word document and you are the “auto-correct” typo utility? ‍️