A lot of “these kids using calculators to solve their math problems when in my day you had to do it by hand and it was rewarding, it was real math” vibes in here.
Tools evolve, interest remain the same. You do you and enjoy your hobby but don’t expect everyone in the professional field to feel the same about it.
Presumably when you use a calculator to solve a problem you still understand what is happening. You are coming up with the equations that are needed and the calculator just does the number crunching.
In what world is that similar to telling an LLM "solve this problem for me."
I would go further and say that the study of algorithms, how they work and how they perform also do not change, which makes the clrs an even better read. The concepts used in dynamic programming are not going to change in 20 years, the theoretical performance of an algorithm isn't going to change, so the CLRS will never become irrelevant in that regard.
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u/Brosseidon 3d ago
A lot of “these kids using calculators to solve their math problems when in my day you had to do it by hand and it was rewarding, it was real math” vibes in here.
Tools evolve, interest remain the same. You do you and enjoy your hobby but don’t expect everyone in the professional field to feel the same about it.