[erelong]

Sounds like author is currently at the point of learning to use AI to develop mental models (simply continue?)

I think one of the issues with LLMs that confuses people is that they're such a broad open-ended tool that people don't know what to do with them and so conclude they're not sure if they are useful, but in a meta way you could just keep asking the AI questions like "how do I make good use of LLMs in this case" and so on

They seem like an upgraded kind of search engine for text prompts, if nothing else