[EGreg]

You sound like the people who used to know how to fix a car, or sew, or write cursive, or do multiplication times tables in their head, or know how to derive a formula, or check a mathematical proof.

Ask anyone below 30 if they can write cursive today, or know their times tables hehe. Ask them if they can derive a formula instead of using Mathematica.

Or ask a developer if they know how their pixel shaders work, or what’s going on under the hood of their favorite runtime, how hash tables work, or really anything. Previous generations did. When the complexity gets too high people just trust the machines I guess.

And no one actually knows what the LLM internals are anyway.

[dotnet00]

If you're driving you don't need to know how to fix a car, but relying on GPT to write for you to the extent of accepting its generated citations without checking them, is the equivalent of running around looking for blinker fluid as you attempt to fix your car.