Lots of good thoughts in here.

> You can ask an AI what 2 * 3 is and for the low price of several seconds of waiting, a few milliliters of water and enough power to watch 5% of a TikTok video on a television, it will tell you.

This might be what many of the companies that host and sell time with an LLM want you to do, however. Go ahead, drive that monster truck one mile to pickup fast food! The more that's consumed, the more money that goes in the pockets of those companies....

> The instincts are for people to get the AI to do work for them, not to learn from the AI how to do the work themselves.

Improviny my own learning is one of the few things I find beneficial with LLMs!