alt Hacker NewsI was reading in the article that what matters is the process that leads to the (typically useless) result, what the people get out of it.
Once I realized that this white on black contrast was hurting my eyes, I decided to stop as I didn't want to see stripes for too long when looking away.
Some activity has outcomes that aren't strictly in the results.
Yeah, it was saying that what matters is the process of training people to be good scientists, so they can produce other, more useful, results. That's literally what training is, everywhere.
This argument boils down to "don't use tools because you'll forget how to do things the hard way", which nobody would buy for any other tool, but with LLMs we seem to have forgotten that line of reasoning entirely.