I think LLMs are pretty similar to DuoLingo. It is a tool that makes you feel like you have accomplished something without you putting in the work you need to actually accomplish anything. Worse still, you still need to put in the time. So in effect you end up wasting a bunch of time without learning anything new. These machines, are dopamine generators, kind of like cigarettes, or slot machines.
Seeing the usual HN hate on Duolingo specifically, I wonder whether it's blind. I might have missed scientific research about it causing cancer.