When Models Surpass You, Is Understanding Still Worth Your Time?
RollingMeteors · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit post frames a mutually exclusive choice as models surpass top experts: spend your cognition understanding what models do and why, or use your limited understanding to build things you know models can do without grasping how. The author questions whether learning to understand something increasingly smarter than you is wasted time—a debate about cognitive offloading and the future value of expertise.
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