Economist John Horton: AI models would have saved teenage me months of being stuck
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-08
Economist John Horton, in a thread on doing research as a student, recalls spending months uselessly stuck on a problem he got fascinated with in high school, with no one to help. He argues that with today's models available at 16, he would have learned far more and faster, and been pushed toward more ambitious or less understood problems — a counterpoint to claims that AI makes students lazy.
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