I was reading this article, and Austin makes a great point. There is a massive distinction between a chatbot teacher and a human teacher. When a teacher talks, everything they say is said once. There is no record of it afterward, and you subconsciously know that. So you put in more effort to understand and remember what they say. We don’t treat chatbots the same way. When you talk to Claude, you know every response will still be there whenever you need it. That changes how much attention you give it. We all know the feeling of getting a long answer to something that should have taken two sentences and just skimming through it. And if you forget something, there is very little cost. You can always scroll back up. That is the fundamental problem with AI tutors: the format itself incentivizes you to rely on the chat history instead of actually remembering what you learned.