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15 Feb 2026·5 min read

The Illusion of Competence in the Age of LLMs

I know Redux, Elm, and unidirectional data flow inside out. So learning TCA for iOS should be easy, right? Five hours of videos later, I couldn't write a single line. The fluency illusion—mistaking 'I can follow this' for 'I can do this'—hit hard. And with LLMs, this trap is even more dangerous: the code compiles, the feature works, and you never discover what you don't understand.