The phrase going around the interwebs is "You can outsource your thinking but not your understanding". A phrase that can at times seem like this weird human<>llm endless loop; depending on what you think you understand and what the llm "thinks" to help you understand, it can seem like an LLM also understand. But it does not.

Its clear one can't really think about anything without building a basic understanding about it. Worth stating that these are distinct from learning. But, I would argue that it is important to know what you *have* to understand now and why is that important. An LLM can help you understand a great many things, you just need to know what you are looking for and that is something no artificial intelligence can really *do* for you. Trial and error, building a sense of self awareness, and talking to people is a better way to know what this is especially for fairly open ended problems.