Personally I’ve found the way to use it is to get it to do the work of processing documents I could never be bothered to process myself, and to transform large volumes of information into an indexed and cross referenced dynamic index. It does both of these things well, because that’s what language models are good at.

The end result is that I am more informed. The downside is that I spend less time going off into the weeds, which does mean picking up less esoteric information.

It’s also more mentally exhausting to have to be constantly second guessing your sources of information.

But I’ve found well prompted LLMs to be a force multiplier if used in the background to do the things you previously just didn’t bother doing at all.