Solving complex math equations by hand used to be a valuable skill. Today it's practically useless and inefficient. But its still a method of learning.

The real skill is solving the science/engineering problem and as part of that identifying which calculations to perform.

To even know which calculations to perform you still need to understand the equations, what they do and how to apply them.

You can't just rely on the calculator output to understand this. You need to actually learn each operation and how they work together to calculate the final answer end to end.

Only after you have this foundation can you determine when and how to apply equations accurately.

Same with LLMs and code. You need to learn how to code first if you're ever going to write software worthy of production usage.

Even if you don’t hand-code every line, you still need to know what good code looks like so you can design it, guide it, and review it.

If you know how to write code, you can build production software with LLMs as described in the article “Writing High Quality Production Code with LLMs is a Solved Problem” read it here on Substack 👉🏿 escobyte.substack.com/p…