Professor with 9 Years Teaching Experience: LLM Shortcuts Stop You Learning to Write Precisely
yaringal · x · 2026-09-28
Yarin Gal, drawing on nine years of teaching research, argues that verbalising thoughts and writing precisely can only be learned through practice—using LLMs as a shortcut before mastering these skills means you may never develop them. The quoted thread adds that taming fleeting ideas into a format that won't let you lie through internal inconsistencies is itself a core goal of science, that LLM use can be legitimate but exposes under-formed scientific thinking, and that the real task is teaching young researchers to recognise when their ideas are still half-formed.
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