It appears to be a pattern where I work "expert novice" eventually causes serious incident but is unable to root-cause on their own.

They've become a meat proxy[0] prompting LLM to root cause for them and the ability to fix is capped by LLMs ability, not the engineer's.

I've tried to convince management before this happened and yet here we are.

[0] https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/