To me this seems a very similar argument to when Google/Wikipedia were gaining relevance. Many IT professionals agree that most of their job is knowing how to

To me this seems a very similar argument to when Google/Wikipedia were gaining relevance. Many IT professionals agree that most of their job is knowing how to Google things. Sure they need to know how to read manuals, forum posts, find product numbers/specs., simplify the information for the end user, etc., but at the end of the day the skill is mostly knowing how to properly and effectively leverage an external source of knowledge/wisdom/intelligence in a occupational domain. ChatGPT is just Google on steroids in this respect.