'People call themselves technical and all they can do is prompt an LLM'
KevinNaughtonJr · x · 2026-10-28
A developer with 100k followers snarks: "nowadays people will call themselves technical and all they can do is prompt an LLM." One line that captures the ongoing debate about what counts as technical skill in the AI era — is prompting the new literacy, or a fig leaf?
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