Almost 3 years ago I wrote a post entitled "If Applied Econometrics Were Easy LLMs Could Do it. " Since then the technical capabilities of AI have progressed, but the advancements only reinforce some of the main takeaways from that post: "There are risks when these tools are used like Dunning-Kruger-as-a-Service (DKaaS), where the critical thinking and actual learning begins and ends with prompt engineering and a response. We have to be very careful to recognize as Philip Tetlock describes in hi