Agree with you there. What you are working on and the commenter below talking about surgery, they are all valid counter examples where the degree of expertise is quite extreme. But most people are not living on the edge of domain expertise. Im guessing 80% of the domain knowledge out there is up for grabs. For example: I dont have to go get a job at a security software company to figure out how security camera systems work and the principles involved, I can ask probing questions of an LLM and get most of it. The domain knowledge is embedded in the model.

> For example: I dont have to go get a job at a security software company to figure out how security camera systems work and the principles involved, I can ask probing questions of an LLM and get most of it. The domain knowledge is embedded in the model.

Unless you're referring to designing your own hardware/software or a setting up a massive surveillance system like at Target/walmart/casinos, which is extremely doubtful without related experience, that seems like a subject with such a low bar to become knowledgeable that describing anyone as a "domain expert" comes across satirical.