No, it's sometimes just extremely easy to recognize people who have no idea what they're talking about when they make certain claims.

Just like I can recognize a clueless frontend developer when they say "React is basically just a newer jquery". Recognizing clueless engineers when they talk about AI can be pretty easy.

It's a sector that is both old and new: AI has been around forever, but even people who worked in the sector years ago are taken aback by what is suddenly possible, the workflows that are happening... hell, I've even seen cases where it's the very people who have been following GenAI forever that have a bias towards believing it's incapable of what it can do.

For context, I lead an AI R&D lab in Europe (https://ingram.tech/). I've seen some shit.

This is all just ignorance. We've all worked with LLMs and know that creating an effective workflow is not trivial and it varies based on the tool.

I'm not a native speaker, but to me that quote doesn't necessarily imply an inability of OP to get up the curve. Maybe they just mean that the curve can look flat at the start?