I’ve read plenty of books (thanks, Dickens) where I looked at every word on every page but can recall very little of what they meant. You can look at the results from an llm and say “huh cool, I know that now) and do nothing to assimilate that knowledge, or you can think deeply about it and try to fit it in with everything else you know about the subject. The advantage here is that you can ask follow-up questions if something doesn’t click.

We have the idea of 'tutorial hell' for programming (particularly gamedev), where people go through the motions of learning without actually progressing.

Until you go apply the skills and check, it's hard to evaluate the effectiveness of a learning method.

Same way a phone in your pocket gives you the world's compiled information available in a moment. But that's generally led to loneliness, isolation, social upheaval, polarization, and huge spread of wrong information.

If you can handle the negatives is a big if. Even the smartest of our professional class are addicted to doomscrolling these days. You think they will get the positives of AI use only and avoid the negatives?