I know it can be a deep time sink, but I notice more and more how much deeper my understanding is of a certain problem/best-practice after developing the neuropathways involved in crawling between reddit, stack overflow, etc, to get to the proper solution. I love the instant answer from google ai, but I also notice an itch to purposefully force myself to ignore it when time allows.
ime google ai is wrong often enough that I'm still doing that to verify its results
At least validation seems faster than without, but you get what you pay for when it comes to llm intelligence