Is that really a fair comparison? I think the amount of people who can memorize each and every configuration item is vanishingly small... even when I was bootstrapping k8s clusters before the dawn of LLMs I had to lookup current documentation and maybe some up to date tutorials.

Knowing the abstract steps and tripwires yes, but details will always have to be looked up. If just not to miss any new developments.

> Is that really a fair comparison?

Well, yes it is; you can't very well claim to have learned something if you are unable to do it.

It doesn't matter - GP is now able to do things they were unable to do before. A distinction without a (real-world) difference.

> It doesn't matter - GP is now able to do things they were unable to do before. A distinction without a (real-world) difference.

I get that point, but the original post I replied to didn't say "Hey, I know have $THING set up when I never had it before", he said "I learned to do $THING", which is a whole different assertion.

I'm not contending the assertion that he now has a thing he did not have before, I'm contending the assertion that he has learned something.