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The problem with schools are that they are run by people who WERE good at things. - Alex Lindsay I'm in AI now. Aren't we all? If you're not, you should start using LLMs quickly, because someone who knows AI is going to be hired to the job you are slogging at. As part of my self-education processed in AI, I worked to developed a Python engine that could play cribbage. I wanted to put the engine into a re-enforced learning system. I tried the traditional way of writing Python, using Google and StackOverflow to search for the answers to my coding questions. Then the tipping point came for me when I hit a wall. I could not find examples in Google or StackOverflow of using OpenAI Gymnasium to do my simple problem. There were plenty of code examples for Gymnasium of landing spacecraft and controlling Atari games. There were no examples of my fairly simple problem. What if, what if, instead of using traditional tools to learn how to program AI, I used AI to learn how to pro...