[zahlman]

He's "smart" but he chooses to be in a business where he's presumptively willfully ignorant of the fundamentals (since he surely should be able to learn to reverse a string if he wanted to learn)? He doesn't have a more lucrative opportunity available? Or does he somehow have a skillset that makes him able to "connect web services together" by prompting AIs in ways that other people (including ones who can reverse strings, etc.) couldn't?

This form of being "smart" is a bit difficult for me to comprehend, I must admit.

[sublinear]

> This form of being "smart" is a bit difficult for me to comprehend, I must admit.

I strongly agree with this. Suddenly with the mass adoption of LLMs there are so many smart, yet naive people out there willing to toe the line. Why these smart people couldn't bring value in a million different other ways is, of course, left unsaid.

They're not even trying to dress up these bullshit stories anymore. In truth it doesn't matter if you believe it. So much buzz is people just talking to themselves out loud.

[LPisGood]

Well that’s not his primary job. It’s an extra task he’s doing at his job. At a non-tech company with small/horrific engineering components, someone in the business who can do any programming (or vibeing) is indistinguishable from magic.