> It feels more like I’m able to Matrix-upload docs into my brain like Trinity learning to fly a helicopter

Did you puzzle about this sentence specifically? Imagine you don't know jack about flying helicopters, then Tank uploads the Helicopter Pilot Program (TM) directly to your brain; it would feel like magic.

Conversely, if you know a lot about helicopters, just not enough to fly a B-212, and the program includes instructions like "Press (Y) and Left Stick to hover", you'd know it's confabulating real world piloting with videogames.

That's the same with LLMs, you need to know a lot of the field to ask the right questions, and recognize/correct slop or confabulation, otherwise they seem much more powerful and smart than they really are.

lol thanks, did an LLM generate this reply?

My horrible grammar has to be a giveaway it didn't, ha ha.