I do find it amusing that “AI Bros” seems to have very little literacy of how the instruct LLM tools actually work, even at the executive level of companies. It reflects the sort of “confident ignorance” you see with being unable to look up documentation and such.

I find this frustrating because I consider myself a local LLM tinkerer and find it… Isolating. I love the problem solving loop and hammering gritty details out to coax decent tokens out quickly, or getting it to use documentation/forced syntax effectively, or assembling a bizzare dataset for some weird style or dialect, and that’s like antithetical to the culture.

I guess what I’m saying is there are problem solvers who use LLMs. Maybe they’re pink elephants.

Barring terrible company policy, those people who can't do more than allow the AI to think for them will find themselves out of a job pretty quickly if they can't do the work themselves.

Bad employees and stupid people will always be stupid, the newest tech isn't the cause of that. Maybe it lowers the bar of entry a bit?

Lastly, you're clearly gatekeeping "the ability to critically think" based on some arbitrary conditions you made up based on "how things used to be", so to speak. Maybe you could have used your superior boomer wisdom to figure that one out.