> Once you understand its just search, you can get really good results.

I think this is understating the issue, ignoring context. It reminds me of how easy people claim searching is with search engines. But there's so many variables that can make results change dramatically. Just like Google search, two people can type in the exact same query and get very different results. But probably the bigger difference is in what people are searching for.

What's problematic with these types of claims is that they just come off as calling anyone who thinks differently dumb. It's as disconnected as saying "It's intuitive" in one breath and "You're holding it wrong" in another. It's a bad mindset to be in as an engineer because someone presents a problem and instead of trying to address it is dismissed. If someone is holding it wrong, it probably isn't intuitive[0]. Even if they can't explain the problem correctly, they are telling you a problem exists[1]. That's like 80% of the job of an engineer: figuring out what the actual problem is.

As maybe an illustrative example people joke that a lot of programming is "copy pasting from stack overflow". We all know the memes. There's definitely times where I've found this to be a close approximation to writing an acceptable program. But there's many other times where I've found that to be far from possible. There's definitely a strong correlation to what type of programming I'm doing, as in what kind of program I'm writing. Honestly, I find this categorical distinction not being discussed enough with things like LLMs. Yet, we should expect there to be a major difference. Frankly, there are just different amounts of information on different topics. Just like how LLMs seem to be better with more common languages like Python than less common languages (and also worse at just more complicated languages like C or Rust).

[0] You cannot make something that's intuitive to all people. But you can make it intuitive for most people. We're going to ignore the former case because the size should be very small. If 10% of your users are "holding it wrong" then the answer is not "10% of your users are absolute morons" it is "your product is not as intuitive as you think." If 0.1% of your users are "holding it wrong" then well... they might be absolute morons.

[1] I think I'm not alone in being frustrated with the LLM discourse as it often feels like people trying to gaslight me into believing the problems I experience do not exist. Why is it so surprising that people have vastly differing experiences? *How can we even go about solving problems if we're unwilling to acknowledge their existence?*