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Lol, no. The person who can bullshit the best keeps the job. Valuable people have the self-destructive tendency of delivering honest bad news.
I say this as someone who has both been a valuable employee and managed fairly large departments. And who grew up long before LLMs existed. An important thing to remember is that hiring and firing decisions are generally above the team lead's pay grade, meaning that a bullshitter just has to network upwards.
Sure, cheating at uni will cripple the kids, but only the frontline employees, not those who tip straight into management.
this is the most accurate from my own experience of having worked for decades
the idiot who knows absolutely nothing, isn't even afraid to admit they don't know anything but is able to bullshit the best, and suck up to the uppers without pissing them off, is the one who advances the furthest and quickest
anecdotally i've seen this time and again in IT. someone who really has no business being in IT support managing to get the job through bullshit interviews and name dropping, clearly having no skills whatsoever to troubleshoot or even do the most basic requirements of the job, but being able to shamelessly kiss ass and self-promote makes it to the lead IT position in 2 years, meanwhile the folks who know their shit inside and out end up leaving the job because they get no raises or promotions and just keep getting more work piled on endlessly