It's true that the Nix language is quite difficult to learn. However, part of that is the poor documentation, and the weird situation where flakes are the de fa

It's true that the Nix language is quite difficult to learn. However, part of that is the poor documentation, and the weird situation where flakes are the de facto modern way of doing things, but are still treated as an "experimental" feature (which leads to further confusion when reading documentation based on the old way of doing things). Luckily LLMs can help with this too. I asked ChatGPT to generate a course with just enough content to help an ordinary NixOS user configure their system, work with Nix code and flakes, and create/modify simple packages (which is rarely needed anyway). Just a few hours of that gave me a much stronger understanding than all the documentation / tutorials I had read before.