Unrelated to your friends, but a big part of learning is to do tedious tasks. Maybe once you master a topic LLMs can be better, but for many folks out there, using LLMs as a shortcut can impede learning.
I'm ~8,000 XP into MathAcademy right now, doing the calculus stuff I skipped by not going to college. I'm doing a lot, lot, lot of tedious practice. But I know why I'm doing it, and when I'm doing doing it, I'm going to go back to using SageMath to do actual work.
