"Ask the model" is usually the point where I realize that either what you need is not a specific answer to their specific question, but a tutor to guide you on a personal journey through the underlying fundamentals of more than one prerequisite areas of understanding, or, the question is too niche or domain specific that I would have to 'ask the model' as wel as I do not know. Now I did observe, not just with LLM but also with Google search, that many people struggle with this and never seem to get good results. They need meta-learning on how to ask the right questions, which I can offer, but often I notice at that point their eyes starting to glaze over as they want a 'direct' solution, me searching or llm guiding for them.