Comment by zellyn

I've had incredibly productive discussions with Claude about category theory. (I prefer Claude because it's the most pleasant to talk with; I think they optimized for that.)

The ability to explain what I know already, hand-wave at what I think I understand about my question, and then get a description that meets me where I'm at is invaluable.

Sure, occasionally Claude will tell me (incorrectly) that a CRDT's lattice operation needs an identity function: you absolutely have to go back and forth with wikipedia.

LLMs are not a magic genie or oracle. But if you use them for what they're good at, they're amazing.