Sure, but.. I've been coding for 40 years and I don't know everything. To me, a LOT depends on what the plumber asked chatgpt about. For example: building codes in that city, to figure out what his options are - like, is he allowed to just put in any old toilet, or is there a gpf restriction? What's the replacement part number for faucet XYZ's gasket? Those seem reasonable.

"how do I fix a clogged toilet?" would be bad..

I've always wanted to be more of a handy man, never knew where to start. I used LLMs to create a toolkit and then used it to fix various stuff around the house. I'm at the point where I'm comfortable with beginner projects moving onto intermediate, and I feel like the quality of my works beats those of hired help at my level of competence. So... I'm glad I could off-load some cognition to LLMs and get to the actual useful parts.

your sister offloaded to her plumber.

her plumber offloaded to chatgpt.

"i just think it's good for humans to know how to do stuff."

are we talking about your sister or her plumber?

Would you prefer to have:

The plumber who turned up leave without fixing the problem,

The plumber fixing something that he didn't know how to do by looking up the answer.

The plumber attempting to fix something that they didn't know how to do.

While it's great to have the plumber who knows how to do everything, they are rare and in high demand, so cost way more than you can afford.

I mean, yes but LLMs have been making me more cognitively active. I've learned how to do more stuff that I would have without them and it's a decent multiplier not some rounding error.

Obviously you can have a plumber that knows his stuff and the one that doesn't. The good one can check some details and will recognize bs. If you already have the bad one it's probably if better if he uses LLM rather than when doesnt.

Did she also catch him with a wrench?