Surprisingly effective.

You're just memorizing a nonsensical recipe. What are the constraints? Why do we do X rather than Y? How does a particular thing scale? etc.

All you're doing is fooling yourself into thinking that you've acquired some knowledge. When in reality you haven't even learned the basic mental model to reason about this stuff.

You've learned something when you have a mental model that makes correct predictions. Until then you've memorized it at best, and as with most memorized things it will decay exponentially and will be gone from your memory soon enough.

I also struggle with LLMs explaining things, but for the opposite reason.

I consistently have problems to get short, precise but plain/simple answers.

Instead I'm overwhelmed with walls of texts, often filled with jargon that is a mixture of imprecise and unneeded.

The style at which I learn better is by asking about stuff interactively. I ask you what something is, you give me a 3-4 sentences top answer. Then I explore and dig into the topic from your answer on the things I want to know better.

Do you know it is free of hallucinations because you crossed checked it with the source material or because you told the LLM "don't hallucinate"

Then I went back to a book written by humans (Eric Nikitin's "Realm of Oberon").

I am pretty sure this person is

a. Ignorant of the fact, that AI is designed to give just answers, they do not care whether they’re true or not

b. Have never Cross-checked Information given by AI with reliable sources