You don’t, _can’t_ pick up that sort of knowledge in college. You pick it up on the job.
If anything, critical thinking is _more_ important in the LLM age. So you can question what the machine is telling you. So you can determine when it’s bullshitting, hallucinating, or plain wrong — even about topics you don’t already know intimately. So you can evaluate the queries it picks for and the sources it picks from a web search. And whether the sources it picks actually support the conclusions it draws (hint: too often not).
If anything, critical thinking is _more_ important in the LLM age. So you can question what the machine is telling you. So you can determine when it’s bullshitting, hallucinating, or plain wrong — even about topics you don’t already know intimately. So you can evaluate the queries it picks for and the sources it picks from a web search. And whether the sources it picks actually support the conclusions it draws (hint: too often not).