Comment by r3trohack3r

I don’t know about you, but I use LLMs as gateways to knowledge. I can set a deep research agent free on the internet with context about my current experience level, preferred learning format (books), what I’m trying to ramp up on, etc. A little while later, I have a collection of the definitive books for ramping up in a space. I then sit down and work through the book doing active recall and practice as I go. And I have the LLM there for Q&A while I work through concepts and “test the boundaries” of my mental models.

I’ve become faster at the novice -> experienced arc with LLMs, even in domains that I have absolutely no prior experience with.

But yeah, the people who just use LLMs for “magic oracle please tell me what do” are absolutely cooked. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.