We Need Guidelines for Learning and AI

The author argues that while AI can provide cheap, patient tutoring and on-demand explanations, having it do your homework is self-defeating because you can't learn without doing the work, drawing on Carl Hendrick's analogy between autopilot and degraded pilot skill to warn against over-dependency. He proposes tentative guidelines: don't use AI on your first or last attempt, but do use it to suggest alternative ideas and resources and to fix confusion and mistakes. AI can assist the "see" and "feedback" parts of the learning loop, but cannot replace the middle step of doing the work yourself.