Either that, or he’s not very smart, had a thought, poppet it into ChatGPT, and ChatGPT as it tends to do, affirmed his dumb idea, and he ended up asking it to make a Linkedin post for him on the idea.

I’ve seen similar stuff from students who think they’ve cracked how something works, only to be incredibly wrong, because they only know half of what they need to, but don’t know enough to understand how little they know. It’s part of the journey of getting sorta-good at something though.