>question whether the "decades of experience + stanford professor thing", as you put it, was true or just an LLM hallucination.

the scs.stanford.edu domain and stanford-scs github should help with that.

Excellent point, though not everyone pays close enough attention to the domain shown in the browser (if they did, some of the more amateurish phishing attempts would fool a lot fewer people). But yes, anyone who notices the domain will have a clue to the truth.