This actually doesn’t have to be the case. I had a similar ML project experience, and the issue is the other guy didn’t have the same “figure things out” ethic as me. My best model of their mentality is that things happened to them, rather than they had the ability to do things. If they couldn’t passively soak up knowledge, or passively type in the right words to an LLM to get the right code outputted, they didn’t really know how to go and figure that out. They spent about as much time as me on the project, but their contribution was probably negative because they kept interrupting my work to ask me questions. I don’t think the issue was different priorities, just a different perspective on the world. Their perspective is probably better (healthier, happier) in situations of abundance, but not when you have to get things done or starve (or get a bad grade).
This actually doesn’t have to be the case. I had a similar ML project experience, and the issue is the other guy didn’t have the same “figure things out” ethic as me. My best model of their mentality is that things happened to them, rather than they had the ability to do things. If they couldn’t passively soak up knowledge, or passively type in the right words to an LLM to get the right code outputted, they didn’t really know how to go and figure that out. They spent about as much time as me on the project, but their contribution was probably negative because they kept interrupting my work to ask me questions. I don’t think the issue was different priorities, just a different perspective on the world. Their perspective is probably better (healthier, happier) in situations of abundance, but not when you have to get things done or starve (or get a bad grade).