I find there's a time and a place for RTFM, and it's usually not at the start of the project when you know the least. When you're just starting, you just want to get something working. Being spoon-fed some answers to get past a few hurdles is rather nice. But then there comes a point where you have to stop and be like "Okay, what the heck is this actually doing? How does it work?".

I just hit that point with some TensorFlow stuff because I started hitting the limits of what ChatGPT could answer successfully, and I think that's fine. But maybe good that I couldn't get everything out of it or it may have delayed my learning further yet. Which I guess reinforces your point.