> "But it's not satisfying to stay at that level of ignorance very long" It's not about satisfaction: it's literally dangerous and can bankrupt your employer,

> "But it's not satisfying to stay at that level of ignorance very long" It's not about satisfaction: it's literally dangerous and can bankrupt your employer, cause immense harm to your customers and people at home, and make you unhirable as an engineer. Let's take your example of "an S3 avatar upload system", which you consider finished after writing 2 lines of code and a couple of packages installed. What makes sure this can't be abused by an attacker to DDOS your system, leading to massive bills from AWS? What happens after an attacker abuses this system and takes control of your machines? What makes sure those avatars are "safe-for-work" and legal to host in your S3 bucket? People using LLMs and feeling all confident about it are the equivalent of hobby carpenters after watching a DIY video on YouTube and building a garden shed over the weekend. You're telling me they're now qualified to go build buildings and bridges? > "It's like presuming that StackOverflow will keep you as a question-asker your whole life when nobody here would relate to that." I meet people like this during job interviews all of the time, if I'm hiring for a position. Can't tell you how many people with 10+ years of industry experience I met recently that can't explain how to read data from a local file, from the machine's file system.