Depends on what you mean.

E.g., I've given ChatGPT API documentation, and a sample implementation in one language, and asked it to give me a sample implementation in another language. And what it gave me worked, with minimal tweaking to use in my project.

Could I have done it myself? Sure. As fast? Heck no.

(And yes, I still did all the same code review, QA, etc. that I would have had to do anyway, even if I had sweated out every line myself.)

Right. We also don't even know what he did.

E.g. did he even give the LLMs the API documentation, or point them to it? Or did he just expect the magic 8 ball to spit out the right answer from the ether? Did he give the LLM a sample implementation, even if in some other language?

I see so many smug posts from people who don't even know that they are just saying "I don't know how to use LLMs".

... "see less of these" (or whatever it says)

If this is less, I'd hate to see more ...

How many drugs did you have in mind?

Weed has been legal where I live for several years now. Hasn't reduced crime any ... just increased impaired drivers.

I'm stunned that the percentage is so low!

It reminds me of that bit, something like "I can kill somebody in the middle of Times Square and never be convicted"?

Exactly.

And lol, no, ceasing to require ID was not a "mistake". It was a deliberate policy.

(And merely wanting to require ID again is supposedly evil fascism ...)

So my chemistry and physics instructors at Naval Nuclear Power School decades ago (who were also direct input officers) were fascists? Who knew!

You should meet some military physicians.

They are made officers (we used to call them "direct input officers", dunno if they still do) and given inflated ranks for two reasons: to pay them sufficiently, but also to get them within the military accountability structure.

Yawn. Direct input officers have been a thing forever. Heck, I had to salute my physics instructor at nuclear power school, who was just some young teacher chick who would never deploy anywhere.

And yes, it's to pay them. And get them within the military accountability structure (the more important reason).

That explains why people want to sell them. Not why I should want to buy them.

"Most of them will spend 20+ years on a given ship, and will know every system intimately."

Interesting. The stories that some of these Warrant Officers could tell!

One of the reasons that officers are rotated in a modern military is so that no centers of power grow to where the troops are more loyal to a commander than to their government. Limiting the rank to WO's sort of gets around this problem. Supervisory authority, perhaps, but no command authority.

I wonder how large of a navy this could scale to?

I suspect it would be, "Damn the contracts, full speed ahead!"

"No. Because Disney would crack down on it."

Defying Dear Leader is one thing, crossing Disney is a whole 'nuther level.

They are tools; asking a candidate to show how they use tools is fine, on the face of it.

You can demonstrate whether or not you know how to use them intelligently and carefully.