and to be blunt, I learned similar things building analog synths, before the dawn of LLMs.

Like you, I don't like watching videos. However, the web also has text, the same text used to train the LLMs that you used.

> When something doesn't work like I thought it would, AI helps me understand where I may have went wrong, I ask it a ton of questions, and I try again until I understand how it works and how to prove it.

Likewise, but I would have to ask either the real world or written docs.

I'm glad you've found a way to learn with LLMs. Just remember that people have been learning without LLMs for a long time, and it is not at all clear that LLMs are a better way to learn than other methods.