She claimed she didn’t know what “wiping a server” meant 10 years ago. I’d bet she’d say anything once the check cleared.

She is. Those things are still hard. I run my own inference, I wore my own harness, I implemented production apps using LLM ("document intelligence", aka data entry), I followed Karpathy course and trained GPT2, I trained a classifier.

It's still hard for me to explain a lot of nuances to IT directors with a technical background.