Nice. I've got Claude code teaching me maths at the moment. Some skills, file system learning log, oss text books and a full curriculum based on Math Academy (which I was doing before but got bored of) and UK high school and university. Teaching me concept-first though. So we start with something complex and go up and down until I get it all. It's not necessarily thorough for everything, but the depth of my intuition is much better and each time I use it I find myself unlocking another sector of the map. I love LLMs for this.
Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
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Re: Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
#82A related idea is to have the LLM quiz you, Socratic-style about a topic of interest. It persists in asking questions at deeper levels until you arrive at the answer yourself. This forces you to think hard about a problem, and this effort helps with understanding, learning and retention. Of course I made a Socratic-quiz skill for this, to use with any coding agent or similar: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-…
if your power is LLM, what are you without it ???
If your power is literacy, what are you without it?
Re: Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
The issue is that there are now different expectations surrounding velocity and apparent productivity. Previously an individual new to web development might have genuinely needed to develop an understanding of web protocols, HTML and other stuff in that domain in addition to actually wanting to wrap their head around it. Nowadays spending the time required to understand how a website works carries a heavy opportunity…
An organisation which lets a person release a website without understanding how the web works is just asking for trouble. This was true before Transformer LLMs and is true after them. LLMs probably just let those organisations make a larger and more load-bearing website faster, so that poor decisions speed the time to catastrophe.
What's changed is the minimum amount of knowledge required to release a website.
Re: Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
#84A related idea is to have the LLM quiz you, Socratic-style about a topic of interest. It persists in asking questions at deeper levels until you arrive at the answer yourself. This forces you to think hard about a problem, and this effort helps with understanding, learning and retention. Of course I made a Socratic-quiz skill for this, to use with any coding agent or similar: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-…
This is really good! Thank you for this skill, it seems like this method of learning is working really well for me, it is much more engaging, and I have just learned new things about my team's project by using it.
I'll definitely check out your other skills.
Re: Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
#85Oh my, this sounds like an idea I have been toying with.
I really want a tutor to explain how random repos I find work.
Do you think Lathe could be adapted to use a codebase as the source material?
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#87I like the focus on learning rather than replacing learning. One risk with AI tools is that people can become very productive without actually understanding the underlying domain. Tools that help users learn while using AI feel much more sustainable long term.
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#90This looks really nice ill check this out