I feel similarly that some such learning opportunities are just going to be larger rabbit holes than the thing is worth, but in those cases I'll just prefer to

I feel similarly that some such learning opportunities are just going to be larger rabbit holes than the thing is worth, but in those cases I'll just prefer to do it a different way that I do know or is worth learning. E.g. maybe it would be very 'elegant' or rather concise awk if I could overcome the learning opportunity, but like you I would probably decide not to; I'll do it with the sed I do know even if it means some additional piping and cutting or grepping or whatever that awk could've done in one, because I already know it and it's going to be clearer to me and probably anyone else I'm working with. I think we're saying quite similar things, but my point is I wouldn't be deleting it, dismissing the idea, and disappointing the colleague ready to teach me about it - because I never would've been willing to blindly try broken AI generated (or however sourced) code that I didn't understand in the first place.