Learning a technical skill turns less on memorising its parts than on accepting that you will feel stupid and carrying on anyway.

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• Students who learn everything through an LLM are not learning, they are cheating, and the skill loss is already showing up in experienced programmers too. NENeetCode24 Jun 2026
• Dismissing a subject as a waste of time because you never used its details on the job is the wrong way to think, and it is the same mistake people make about learning to code now that AI writes the loops. NENeetCode24 Jun 2026
• In APIs and command-line tools, having fewer ways to accomplish the same task is better because it reduces how much a person has to remember. NJNick Janetakis1 Sept 2026
• Learning should be made harder rather than easier, and a teacher's instinct to smooth the path is the first thing that goes wrong. ACAlan Castel13 Jul 2026
• Solving a problem yourself, without searching or prompting, is a form of exercise -- the help makes you weaker. SYScott H. Young18 Nov 2025

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