Yea, we're fucked aren't we?
Just had a newer person hop into a network engineering discord with a question about proxies, with the opening line being basically "I asked a chatbot (chatgpt), but it said that I couldn't do this thing with proxies so now I'm really confused".

If you're trying to learn anything, but especially fields requiring creativity or inquisitiveness, for the love of the server gods please do not make a convincing sounding language model your first stop and definitely do not let it tell you what is and is not possible.

Some of my most memorable work has been around bending tech into things either at the edges of or beyond what it was envisioned to do, driven by digging into the guts of how things functioned, not constrained by what vendor docs or a robot told me is or is not possible.