> Simplicity of access to knowledge doesn't mean you don't learn it

Except that it does, learning is mediated by _effort_.

Was it hard? Then what did you gain by using AI?

Was it easy? Then you didn't learn

It's not as simple as that.

If you're building a home lab, you might just give up because you are tired of searching for Cisco router syntax.

LLM can be the little bit of lube you need to understand things at a higher level, because the tedious things are not as bad as they used to be.

You then end up actually getting a few things in your lab to work correctly, get a confidence boost, and follow up with some searches about how routing actually works and why the syntax is the way it is.