LLM tools tend confirm what you come to them with, be it unfounded conviction or doubt. I find them quite useless to tell me things I don't know, as verifying what they say shows that any non-trivial claims they make are usually oversimplified or plain wrong.
Anything more than using them to just pointing me to media and literature is usually a waste of time.
I find quite useful to write down my understanding/opinion and ask an LLM to find errors and write objections to it.
That's interesting. Lately I have found the exact opposite to be true; the frontier models are quite disagreeable and require some convincing