Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes

I don't care about the programmers who can't write FizzBuzz. Why should I? If I employed them, they were costing me money. If I worked with them, they were costing me time and hair follicles. I need them about as much as I need a buggy whip.

The linked article makes the claim that the majority of comp sci majors cannot write FizzBuzz. That's a bold assertion; how did the author sample such people? I suspect the sample pool was people applying for a position. There is a major selection bias there. First, people who fail many interviews will do more interviews than those who do not fail, so you'll start with a built-in bias towards the less competent (or more nervous).

Second, there is a large pile of money being given to people who make it over a somewhat arbitrary bar. As a random person, why would I not try to jump over the bar, even if I'm not particularly good at jumping? There are a lot of such bars with a lot of such large piles of money behind them. If getting a chance at jumping over those bars requires me to get a particular piece of paper with a particular title printed at the top of it, I'll be motivated to get that piece of paper too.

> Second, there is a large pile of money being given to people who make it over a somewhat arbitrary bar. As a random person, why would I not try to jump over the bar, even if I'm not particularly good at jumping? There are a lot of such bars with a lot of such large piles of money behind them.

Why don't we see job positions for doctors and lawyers similarly flooded, then?

Because there is a high barrier to entry. In the US, at least, there was also an explicit policy and set of mechanisms to limit supply of doctors: https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2022/02/16/physician...

For lawyers, there is an oversupply of the most lucrative segments, and an undersupply everywhere else: https://www.ajs.org/is-there-a-shortage-of-lawyers/

But in both cases, there just isn't some low bar that you can finagle your way over and get to the promised riches. Lawyers have a literal Bar, and it isn't low. Doctors have a ton of required training. Both have serious certification requirements that computer science professionals do not. Both professions support my point.

Furthermore, incompetent lawyers face real-world tests. If they lose their cases or otherwise screw things up, they are not going to be raking in the money. And people are trying their best to flood the doctor market, by inventing certifications that avoid the requirements to be a physician and setting themselves up as alternative medicine specialists or naturalists or generic "healers" or whatever. (I'm not saying they're all crap, but I am saying that unqualified people are flooding those positions.)