The magic of computers is that a complicated workaround can become modularized functionality very easiily.

The cost there is multiple rounds of review tokens making it both slow and expensive.

These things are still very far from human-level intelligence. Maybe a touch beyond a golden retriever in processing power. Ratcheting the intelligence up a notch from there is expensive. It’s a lot cheaper to simplify the problem it’s solving instead.

There are many models that are neither slow nor expensive that are suitable for targeted review tasks.

Man-computer symbiosis is the void: mechanically extended man or AI.

Distilling LLMs are a reversal of that.

But any competent human is also playing multiple roles mentally, mentally asking an entire series of questions about any new information. Discreet rounds of review emulate that. Write down the human process as a flow chart and then each interior node in the chart becomes a discreet review step with its own prompt.