My last calculator had a "solve" button and we could bring it in an exam.
You still needed to know what to ask it, and how to interpret the output. This is hard to do without an understanding of how the underlying math works.
The same is true with LLMs. Without the fundamentals, you are outsourcing work that you can't understand and getting an output that you can't verify.
You still needed to know what to ask it, and how to interpret the output. This is hard to do without an understanding of how the underlying math works.
The same is true with LLMs. Without the fundamentals, you are outsourcing work that you can't understand and getting an output that you can't verify.