Subject: Re: OT: ChatGPT
I'd agree with Jim with regards to programming talent. I've done various programming work (usually low level stuff) for close to 40 years and you get a few exceptional programmers with a lot of marginal ones and more than a few mostly incompetent ones. Sadly there are a lot of people who somehow managed to get a CS or other tech degree and can't program or do engineering work efficiently or even correctly.

I've found the main "fat tail" is at the high end.
The best programmers are sometimes measurably 1000 times better than the median ones.
Admittedly an aid like ChatGPT can presumably help the median folks be more productive, moving the whole curve. But perhaps not more insightful.

Jim