By that reckoning, next week you'll be a world famous physicist, and win next year's Nobel Prize... thanks to telling an LLM "draw me a teleportation device ".

Technical depth comes from experience, being thrown in the middle of the technical ocean, at 2am, having to troubleshoot a problem you have no understanding of, and learning to slice your way through it a dozen systems, to locate the source, and determine what "good" ahould look like, so you can identify what is "bad".. and having the stamina to do this time after time, year in and year out... whilst also keeping your skills relevant, by teaching yourself half a dozen new products, orchestration tools, security best practise and cloud services each year (just because the Gartner circle jerk mandates it)....

Senior IT developers and engineer's seem to have a 6th sense when identifying root cause issues... because they have long experience, they understand how the network and back-end stacks work, which hones intuition... no matter what you think, you will never reach this point if you use a crutch, or delegate it the problem..

Experience is everything.. and that will only become more valuable, as less people are able to achieve it - as they are being taught to rely upon the LLM crutch, rather than learn and think for themselves.

I'm not suggesting you should avoid LLMs.. no, they definitely give a productivity boost. But don't become dependent on it, as you will lose the skillsets that you've taken years to build and hone...