Everyone understands that, Brian! If i told you that "I was able to learn so much about Russian by using AI", would you expect that I SHOULD or SHOULD NOT be able to tell you something about what I've learned without writing multiple paragraphs about something else entirely? We are now four levels deep from the actual question.

My experience using LLMs to learn is similar. When I read MDN or some O'Reilly tome I get a lot of information but it's in the general sense. I can use what I've learned to build some specific project and it'll work but because the book isn't tailored to the specific thing I'm doing, there will often be a much better way. The LLM on the other hand gives an answer as specific as I'm willing to give it context for and since I know software engineering as a discipline I know when the specific suggestion from the LLM is far superior to the more general method learned in the text book.