> loading a few thousand tokens of raw JSON into a context window, asking a language model to reformat data it did not need to reason about...

> That trap catches almost everyone right now.

Has everyone really become so stupid now? I wouldn't even have thought of doing such a horrible thing as using AI to format JSON...

Needless to say I stopped reading there.

> Has everyone really become so stupid now?

Not everyone. But unfortunately, yes, very many people have.