I am increasingly convinced that the people who claim AIs are useful for any given subject of any import (coding, art, math, teaching, etc.) should immediately be regarded as having absolutely zero knowledge in that subject, even (and especially) if they claim otherwise.

From what I can see in my interactions with LLMs, the only thing they are actually decent at are summarizing blocks of text, and even then if it's important you should parse the summary carefully to make sure they didn't miss important details.

I mean... Yeah? Most explanations aren't great compared to a comprehensive understanding in your head, you already understand it - it would have to be extremely insightful to impress me at that point

The results vary greatly based on the prompt too - not only that, it changes based on the back and forth you've already had in the session

It's not a god, it's not a human expert, but it's always available, and it's interactive.

It doesn't give you amazing writeups, but (at least for me) it makes things click in minutes that I might need an hour or two to understand through reading up on it. I can get a short summary with key terms, ask about key terms I don't know, ask for an example in a given context, challenge the example for an explanations of how the example can be generalized, and every once in a while along the way I learn about a blind spot I never realized I had

It's like talking to a librarian - it gives you the broad strokes of a topic well, which prepares you well enough that you're ready for deeper reading to fill in the details.

It doesn't replace a teacher, a tutor, further reading, or anything else - but it's still a fantastic education tool that can make learning easier and faster