I don't care what you do, you do you. I just like actually knowing things when I need to know them, and have the capacity to solve problems myself without being dependent on tech for everything. It's like being able to figure out how to change your own engine oil vs. paying somebody to do it for you.
Did they come up with all concepts themselves? Do they exclusively code in assembly? Wire their machines by hand? Operate the switches manually? Push the button off the Morse machine themselves?
We read books. We went to classes. We got our hands dirty and failed, again and again and again until it clicked and we got it right. That's the part that's hard. LLMs are a tool. Not a replacement for a good programmer who understands what they are doing. Use them to help you save time with tasks you are already familiar with. Don't use them as a college professor. Because eventually it's going to teach you wrong, that's how they work. And without knowing some basic concepts about the subject you're inquiring about, you're not going to catch it when it does go wrong.
I'm 42 by the way, and I still learn new things every day.
It is far more efficient to ask specific questions instead of reading the whole documentation.
I'm going to bring up an excerpt of your previous comment, because this is an example I want to make. Say there is something in that datasheet (I'm completely making this up as an example) about needing a certain value resistor to set the charging current, and ChatGPT fails to mention this and simply tells you that the battery takes the voltage directly from the circuit without it? Then you have a fire on your hands, because you decided to NOT to read the datasheet and skip crucial info. If you keep taking AI generated text at face value, it's going to bite you in the ass one day.
Electronics is my main hobby, so you can bet I'm poring over datasheets all day too, and little gotchas like that are all over the place. You simply cannot trust them with these things the way you can trust a good old book or someone that's been doing it for a long time.