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by lobsterthief 216 days ago
You are describing exactly the Dunning-Kruger Effect[0] in action. I’ve worked with some very bright yet less technical people who think the output is some sort of magic lamp and vastly overindex on it. It’s very hard as an engineer to explain this to them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect