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He says that he only cares about the learning aspect, and that AI cannot help, because he isn't bottlenecked by typing speed, i.e., it would take as much time for him to write the code as to read it. But it's easier to learn from a textbook than figure things out yourself? Perhaps he meant that he only cares about the "figuring out" aspect.