That is one of the great strengths of LLMs for school education as well. Students often refrain from asking questions in class out of embarrassment at showing their ignorance or hesitation at interrupting the flow of the class. When used well, LLMs offer a good way for motivated learners to fill in the gaps in their understanding.
The pervasive problem of low student motivation won't be solved by LLMs, though. Human teachers will, I think, still be needed.
Yes! In the time it would take to organize a question in a form that won’t be downvoted/closed on StackOverflow you can ask a whole series of LLM questions and learn quite a bit.
Most of the time it doesn't actually, and most people should definitely do it way more instead of pretending to understand thinks they don't, but this bad habit is probably gained thanks to the school system where asking a stupid question is going to get you mocked by your peers. The thing is, IRL your peers don't get to hear your stupid questions and knowledgeable people are happy to answer them no matter how "dumb" they are (or they don't like questions at all, and you'll bother them even if you asked interesting questions).
This appears to be an interesting social phenomena. Just wondering if the interaction with the LMM has also reduced our inhabitance to ask dumb questions, when interacting with other people as well.