Absolutely Fair, they are quite a major source in the accelerated enshitification of modern life, thats why I provided examples so people can still learn without one.

But it would also be ignorant for me to not recognise how much i managed to learn about linux/open source from these same tools in the last few years. The traditional ways of learning things were never compatible with my personal neurology.

Without llms, id probably still be stuck on windows.