The middle step is asking an LLM how it's done and making the change yourself. You skip the web junk and learn how it's done for next time.

Yep, that’s not a bad approach, either.

I did that a lot initially, it’s really only with the advent of Claude Code integrated with VS Code that I’m learning more like I would learn from a code review.

It also depends on the project. Work code gets a lot more scrutiny than side projects, for example.