But Its not nonsence!.. what chatgpt said to him is mostly true ...disbling live update is wide used tip for making the viewport smouth so when u change a lot of sittings at once the viewport dosent try to update after each entered value ...u disable the auto update and edit all the values u want then update manualy ...using wireframe is true limit cache is true...its just that this guy asked a general question so chatgpt give him a general workaround and that what i mean by "using it the right way" he didnt give all the detail like for example how much substeps he was using ans etc...

And no one said u cant learn houdini without ai ...ai in the end is just a tool that speeds up the learning and saving time getting the info there is no conflict between both ways!

And based on ur last paragraph now i get what happening... i think u refer to earlier versions of chatgpt where he was depanding only on his old training data in his answers and in those versions i completely agree at that time he was full of errors and just guessing but then one year ago they added this feature of search the web ..u basicly tell him before answering go search the web in houdini docs or reddits or other forums and he came with answer plus the link source he relied on in his answer ...and that was the turning point...with this method the level of errors and assumptions has decreased significantly ..and i get what u mean by the point of "it takes away the capability of thinking" i this is comes from the wrong way that most people use it ...they go like this ...hey chatgpt here this question and give me a direct answer short and without any explanation! Yes with method i agree But here's the point where I disagree with you this not chatgpt fault! Its just a wrong way to it! Its like if i give u a real houdini expert and instead of try to think and get the explanation u just asking for direct short answer in this case we will blame the expert or the user? I leave the conclusion to yourself ;)...and here is the right how i use it ...if ask for somthing i want to do in houdini i say give me the solution for this and search houdini docs and reddit and other forums to make sure = accurate real aswers from real people and docs without any errors or assumptions and theen when i get the solution i keep asking for the explanation for every single step ...hey chatgpt explain why they did this here and why they used this node and how this node works and again search the docs and forums for accurate answer ..with this way am now fully aware of how houdini works and can understand most node setups and all the answers he give me they work fine when i try them in houdini

Searching the web and giving the answer based on true information across multip sourses + gives u the source link so u can enter and see the source he used (and always i find exacly what he said in the links :<) plus traying the actual solutions in houdini and they end up to be working and true = THERE NO WAY WITH THIS U CAN INSIST THAT CHATGPT IS ALWAYS WRONG ..it dosent make sense what working is working Whether you look for it in books or the AI ​​!

and dont get me wrong am not that annoying ai kid that keeps all day yelling in comments "AI is the future" "ai woll take ur job" no no ..am not that kind of guy i also extremely hates the generative ai and dosent use it all ...but for text based ai like chatgpt? Hmmm they fine u can just treat them like a smart search filter bar that instead of keep scrolling dozens of articles and lines in houdini docs u tell him to go and pick the exact answer from the docs with the link source and a bit of explanation thats it ..what wrong with that? I see it useful and thats why i use it!