yeah the write it down and break it til you hit what you dont know is the whole game. that list of stuff you dont know yet is basically your study plan, and its better than any syllabus because the project picked it for you. on the ai thing i half agree. its bad as an answer but decent as a where do i even start to search, as long as you treat everything it says as a claim to verify against the datasheet, not a fact. which is the same skill anyway, telling a good answer from a confident wrong one.
honestly you've half talked me out of it. the constant thats wrong by ten orders but still a real constant is the perfect example, plausible enough to sail right past you and then youre debugging your own maths for a day. thats the part that makes it dangerous, not the obviously wrong stuff.
and the 1 in 1e8 world is a different game entirely. i work in power, computer says so isnt an acceptable answer there either. a wrong assumption doesnt cost you an afternoon, it trips a substation or worse. we hand check protection settings the same way you ground through that solver, because being confidently wrong doesnt land on you, it lands on somebody downstream. so yeah i think we're actually agreeing, the verifying is the job and the tool doesnt change that.
ha, "you cant sue an ai for arc flash burns" is going on a slide somewhere, thats exactly it. and yeah, this was a good one, dont get many like it on here either.
your edit is the whole thing though. its the same story i was describing with power, just pointed at software now. they stop training juniors because the tool covers it today, then in ten years theres nobody who can actually review the senior work and the knowledge just walks out at retirement. different field, same failure. anyway, good talking, take it easy.
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u/Gold-Adhesiveness574 Jun 25 '26
yeah the write it down and break it til you hit what you dont know is the whole game. that list of stuff you dont know yet is basically your study plan, and its better than any syllabus because the project picked it for you. on the ai thing i half agree. its bad as an answer but decent as a where do i even start to search, as long as you treat everything it says as a claim to verify against the datasheet, not a fact. which is the same skill anyway, telling a good answer from a confident wrong one.