Comment by mark_l_watson

I enjoy doing the same thing: if I am reading and something in the text triggers a memory (could be a historic person, a philosophy, some technology, place, etc.) then I like to have a back and forth for a minute or two to fill in my memory or get more background.

A fortune has been spent developing AI coding agents and they are useful, but I think that if used properly LLM based AI can be most useful in short educational or spitballing sessions. I probably only directly use LLM based AI for about two hours a week (including coding agents), but that is well used time for me.