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If you can easily validate any of the answers. And you have to to know if they're actually correct wouldn't it make more sense to just skip the prompt and do the same thing you would to validate?
I think LLMs have a place. But I don't think it's as broad as people seem to think. It makes a lot of sense for boilerplate for example, as it just saves mindless typing. But you still need to have enough knowledge to validate it
If I'm doing something like coding or trying to figure out the math behind some code I want to write, it's a lot easier to just test what it gave me than it is to go see if anyone on the internet claims it'll do what I think it does.
And when it comes to finding stuff in texts, a lot of the time that involves me going to the source for context anyways, so it's hard not to validate what it gave me. And even if it was wrong, the stakes for being wrong about a book is 0, so... It's not like I'm out here using it to make college presentations, or asking it for medical advice.